re: When movies are marketed as “made by this guy!” I find that irritating

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Didn't this all start with "John Carpenter's Halloween?"

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It all goes back to silent days & DW Griffith, Cecil B DeMille, etc... Of course there was Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. If a director was marketable, he got the possessive credit.

Eventually it began to be used by directors who weren't celebrities, like Carpenter, ultimately leading to the absurdity of "The SECOND QUENTIN TARANTINO FILM"

Then there's the "By" credit, which I think started in France but was brought to H'wood in 1955 w/Otto Preminger & The Man With The Golden Arm, leading writer-director Burt Kennedy to comment:

"I drove past Otto Preminger's house last might - or is it a house by Otto Preminger?"

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