Andre Bazin (1918–1958)

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1. Andre Bazin

   Author of What is Cinema?, Volume 2, Jean Renoir, Bazin at Work: Major Essays and Reviews From the Forties and Fifties

2. Sergei Eisenstein

   Author of Film Form: Essays in Film Theory, The Film Sense

3. Siegfried Kracauer

   Author of From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film (Princeton Classic Editions), Theory of Film, The Mass Ornament: Weimar Essays

4. Gilles Deleuze

   Author of Cinema 1: Movement-Image, Cinema 2: The Time-Image

5. François Truffaut

   Author of Hitchcock, The Films in My Life, Day for Night

6. David Bordwell

   Author of Film Art, Narration in the Fiction Film, The Classical Hollywood Cinema: Film Style & Mode of Production to 1960

7. Christian Metz

   Author of The Imaginary Signifier: Psychoanalysis and the Cinema, Film Language: A Semiotics of the Cinema

8. Philip Rosen

   Author of Narrative, Apparatus, Ideology, Change Mummified: Cinema, Historicity, Theory

9. Leo Braudy

   Author of Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings

10. Rudolf Arnheim

    Author of Film as Art

11. Mary Ann Doane

    Author of The Desire to Desire: The Woman's Film of the 1940's, The Emergence of Cinematic Time: Modernity, Contingency, the Archive

12. Noel Burch

    Author of Theory of Film Practice

13. Walter Benjamin

    Author of Illuminations, Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings

14. David Thomson

    Author of The Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood, A Biographical Dictionary of Film, Showman: The Life of David O. Selznick

15. Orson Welles

    Author of This is Orson Welles, Les Bravades: A Portfolio of Pictures Made for Rebecca Welles by Her Father

16. Stanley Cavell

    Author of The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film, Enlarged Edition

17. Peter Wollen

    Author of Signs and Meaning in the Cinema

18. P. Adams Sitney

    Author of Visionary Film: The American Avant-Garde, 1943-2000, Modernist Montage : The Obscurity of Vision in Cinema and Literature

19. Jean Renoir

    Author of My Life and My Films, Rules of the game;: A film (Classic film scripts)

20. Béla Balázs

    Author of Theory of the film;: Character and growth of a new art