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For better or worse, here is the first full argument for the “director as auteur” theory in classic Hollywood film.

It imported the auteur theory from France to the U.S.

He adheres to the pervasive, pernicious auteur theory, which insists that even non-writing directors are the “authors” of their movies.

For more than half a century, a coterie of critics and filmmakers has been making the case for what’s known as auteur theory: the idea that great directors are the central creative forces behind their films, shaping them just as authors shape their books.

It’s also another annoying example of the outdated auteur theory in that you use the possessive “Kubrick’s ‘The Shining’” when it is based on a novel by none other than Stephen King, which was adapted by Kubrick and Johnson and acted brilliantly — so it never belonged to Kubrick alone.