THE SANDBOX EFFECT: Has Auteurism gone too far at DC and Marvel? (Blog@Newsarama)

In the 1950’s, French film critics like Andre Bazin and Francois Truffaut came up with an idea called the “auteur theory” of film. Auteur theory basically says that film, an undeniably collaborative medium, should be evaluated and analyzed in terms of strong individual creators or “auteurs”. Anyone whose creative presence is so strong [...] http://tinyurl.com/y5g4ank