Laura Mulvey

Laura Mulvey

female, 68 years old
St Hilda's College, Oxford, Experimental filmmaker, St Hilda's College, feminist film theorist, gender studies, Birkbeck, University of London…Film Studies, British Film Institute, Filmtheorist, feminist film theory
Laura Mulvey (born August 15, 1941) is a British feminist film theorist. She was educated at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She is currently professor...
Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard

male, 78 years old
Filmtheorist, nouvelle vague, film history, Marxist philosophy, film director, From Paris…Pierrot le fou film director, Breathless film director, Inside/Out film producer, Contempt film director, Film editor
Jean-Luc Godard (born 3 December, 1930) is a French filmmaker and one of the most influential members of the "Nouvelle Vague", or "French New...
Sergei Eisenstein

Sergei Eisenstein

male, deceased (1948)
the battleship potemkin, battleship potemkin, Silent film director, director, Silent film, soviet…film director, Russian and Soviet film director, Filmtheorist, film editing, Film theory
Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein was a revolutionary Soviet film director and film theorist noted in particular for his silent films "Strike",...
Rudolf Arnheim

Rudolf Arnheim

male, deceased (2007)
Jewish, Centenarian, Psychologist, German, scientist, Filmtheorist
Rudolf Arnheim (July 15, 1904 - June 9, 2007) was a German-born author, art and film theorist and perceptual psychologist. He himself said that his...
David Bordwell

David Bordwell

male
Yasujiro Ozu, defamiliarization, Kristin Thompson, narrative theory, auteur studies, auteur theory…film style, Film Art, film history, Film theory, Filmtheorist
David Bordwell (born 23 July 1947) is a prominent film theorist and author. He is the Jacques Ledoux Professor of Film Studies, Emeritus in the...

André Bazin

male, deceased (1958)
Roman Catholic, writer, film critic, French, Film theory, Filmtheorist…Film criticism
André Bazin was a renowned and influential French film critic and film theorist.

Christian Metz

male
film critic, French, Critic, Filmtheorist, semiotics, Film criticism
Christian Metz (1931-1993) was a French film critic, best known for pioneering the application of Ferdinand de Saussure's theories of Semiotics to...
Siegfried Kracauer

Siegfried Kracauer

male, deceased (1966)
writer, Jewish American, German, film critic, Jewish person, Filmtheorist
Siegfried Kracauer (February 8, 1889, Frankfurt am Main, Germany - November 26, 1966, New York) was a German-American writer, journalist,...
Dziga Vertov

Dziga Vertov

male, deceased (1954)
January 15, Propaganda film director, Cinematographer, Russian, Russian and Soviet film director, polish…Documentary film, Filmtheorist, Film editor, film director
Dziga (Dzyga) Vertov January 15 (New Style), 1896-February 12, 1954) was a Russian pioneer documentary film and newsreel director. His brothers...
Maya Deren

Maya Deren

female, deceased (1961)
Filmtheorist, Jewish American, naturalized citizen of the United States, film director, ukrainian, Witchcraft…Film editor
Maya Deren, born Eleanora Derenkowsky, was an American avant-garde filmmaker and film theorist of the 1940s and 1950s. Deren was also a...