Logo text While the French film critics created and championed the auteur theory celebrating cinema as a medium dominated by directors, television has been perceived more primarily as the domain of writers and producers and even stars, going back to Gertrude Berg and Lucy & Desi, from Rod Serling and Norman Lear to David Chase and Matthew Weiner (both of whom directed their respective shows) and Aaron Sorkin (who did not). Just as the auteur theory was a reductive way to approach the collaborative process of filmmaking, those conversations negating directors and cinematographers and other technical craftspeople as key players in the shaping of television have left countless influential figures marginalized in a medium that has developed and reshaped and evolved its aesthetic over 80+ years.…