a. Auteur theory is only a step along the way toward a critical formula for a medium of popular culture. Historians must share the traditional critic's wish to evaluate only on the internal evidence contained in the thing itself, but they also know that films are social creations. They do not emerge from a lone creator's typewriter; they can begin only if a bank agrees, a crew shares in production and finally an audience registers votes in the form of ticket sales.
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