Sergei Eisenstein

Sergei Eisenstein

male, deceased (1948)
Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein was a revolutionary Soviet film director and film theorist noted in particular for his silent films "Strike",...
David Bordwell

David Bordwell

male
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...

Kristin Thompson

female
Kristin Thompson (born 1950) is a prominent film theorist and author. She holds an honorary fellowship in the Department of Communication Arts at...

Robert Stam

male
Robert Stam is University Professor at New York University, where he teaches about the French New Wave filmmakers. Stam has published widely on...

André Bazin

male, deceased (1958)
André Bazin was a renowned and influential French film critic and film theorist.
Ricciotto Canudo

Ricciotto Canudo

male, deceased (1923)
Ricciotto Canudo (1879-1923) was an Italian film theoretician. In his manifesto "The Birth of the Sixth Art", published as early as 1911, he argued...

Bill Nichols

male
Bill Nichols is an American historian and theoretician of documentary film. His study "Representing Reality. Issues and Concepts in Documentary"...
Steven Shaviro

Steven Shaviro

male
Steven Shaviro is an American cultural critic. His most widely read book is "Doom Patrols", a "theoretical fiction" that outlines the state of...
Teresa de Lauretis

Teresa de Lauretis

female
Teresa de Lauretis is an Italian born author and Professor of the History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the...
Germaine Dulac

Germaine Dulac

female, deceased (1942)
Germaine Dulac (17 November 1882, Amiens, France - 20 July 1942, Paris) was a French film director and early film theorist. Famously, she directed...