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1. Paul Monaco

   Author of The Sixties: 1960-1969

2. Peter Lev

   Author of The Fifties: Transforming the Screen, 1950-1959 (History of the American Cinema)

3. David A. Cook

   Author of A History of Narrative Film, Lost Illusions: American Cinema in the Shadow of Watergate and Vietnam, 1970-1979 (History of the American Cinema, V. 9)

4. Donald Crafton

   Author of The Talkies: American Cinema's Transition to Sound, 1926-1931 (History of the American Cinema, 4)

5. Donald Richie

   Author of The Films of Akira Kurosawa, Third Edition, Expanded and Updated, A Hundred Years of Japanese Film: A Concise History, with a Selective Guide to DVDs and Videos

6. Thomas Schatz

   Author of Boom and Bust: American Cinema in the 1940s (History of the American Cinema, 6)

7. Tino Balio

   Author of Grand Design: Hollywood as a Modern Business Enterprise, 1930-1939 (History of the American Cinema , No 5)

8. Eileen Bowser

   Author of The Transformation of Cinema, 1907-1915 (History of the American Cinema, Vol 2)

9. Richard Koszarski

   Author of An Evening's Entertainment: The Age of the Silent Feature Picture, 1915-1928 (History of the American Cinema, Vol 3)

10. Akira Kurosawa

    Author of Something Like An Autobiography

11. Charles Musser

    Author of The Emergence of Cinema: The American Screen to 1907 (History of the American Cinema, Vol 1)

12. Louis Giannetti

    Author of Understanding Movies, Flashback: A Brief History of Film (4th Edition)

13. Tom Cohen

    Author of Hitchcock's Cryptonymies v1: Volume 1. Secret Agents, Hitchcock's Cryptonymies v2: Volume II. War Machines

14. Barry Keith Grant

    Author of Film Genre Reader III

15. David Bordwell

    Author of Film Art, The Way Hollywood Tells It: Story and Style in Modern Movies

16. Jonathan Rosenbaum

    Author of Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia: Film Culture in Transition

17. George Sansom

    Author of A History of Japan to 1334, A History of Japan, 1615-1867

18. Joseph M. Boggs

    Author of The Art of Watching Films

19. A. Scott Berg

    Author of Goldwyn: A Biography

20. John Belton

    Author of American Cinema/American Culture