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The Film Theorist type contains people who are widely known to write on film theory.
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| x Dziga Vertov |
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Dziga Vertov (Russian: Дзига Вертов; 2 January 1896 – 12 February 1954) was a Soviet pioneer documentary film, newsreel director and cinema theorist. His filming practices and theories paved the way to Cinéma vérité style of documentary moviemaking....
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| x François Truffaut |
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François Roland Truffaut (French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃swa ʀɔlɑ̃ tʁyfo]; 6 February 1932 – 21 October 1984) was an influential filmmaker and one of the founders of the French New Wave. In a film career lasting over a quarter of a century, he remains...
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| x Sergei Eisenstein |
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Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (Russian: Сергей Михайлович Эйзенштейн Sergej Mihajlovič Ejzenštejn; January 23, 1898 – February 11, 1948) was a revolutionary Soviet Russian film director and film theorist noted in particular for his silent films...
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| x Hans Richter |
Hans Richter (April 6, 1888 – February 1, 1976) was a painter, graphic artist, avant-gardist, film-experimenter and producer. He was born in Berlin into a well-to-do family and died in Minusio, near Locarno, Switzerland.
Richter's first contacts...
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| x Andrew Sarris |
Andrew Sarris (31 October 1928, Brooklyn, New York City) is a U.S. film critic and a leading proponent of the auteur theory of criticism. He is generally credited with popularizing this theory in the Americas and coining the term "auteur theory" in...
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| x Jean-Luc Godard |
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Jean-Luc Godard (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃lyk ɡɔˈdaʀ]) (born on 3 December 1930) is a French and Swiss filmmaker and one of the founding members of the Nouvelle Vague, or "French New Wave".
Godard was born to Franco-Swiss parents in Paris. He...
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| x Kaja Silverman |
Kaja Silverman is an American film theorist and art historian. She received her Ph.D. in English from Brown University. She taught at Yale University, Trinity College, Simon Fraser University, Brown University, and the University of Rochester before...
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| x Claude Chabrol |
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Claude Chabrol (French pronunciation: [klod ʃaˈbʁɔl]; born 24 June 1930, Paris) is a French film director, a member of the French New Wave (nouvelle vague) group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s. Like his colleagues...
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| x Slavoj Žižek |
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Slavoj Žižek (pronounced [ˈslavoj ˈʒiʒɛk]; born 21 March, 1949) is a Hegelian philosopher, Lacanian theoretical psychoanalyst, Marxist political thinker, film theorist, and cultural critic.
Žižek is a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology,...
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| x Maya Deren |
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Maya Deren (April 29, 1917, Kiev – October 13, 1961, New York City), born Eleanora Derenkowskaya, was an American avant-garde filmmaker and film theorist of the 1940s and 1950s. Deren was also a choreographer, dancer, poet, writer and photographer....
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| x Stan Brakhage |
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James Stanley Brakhage (January 14, 1933 – March 9, 2003), better known as Stan Brakhage, was an American non-narrative filmmaker who is considered to be one of the most important figures in 20th century experimental film.
Over the course of five...
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| x André Bazin |
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André Bazin (April 18, 1918 – November 11, 1958) was a renowned and influential French film critic and film theorist.
Bazin was born in Angers, France, in 1918. He died in 1958, aged 40, of leukemia.
He started to write about film in 1943 and was a...
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| x Teresa de Lauretis |
Teresa de Lauretis is an Italian-born author and Professor Emerita of the History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She received her doctorate in Modern Languages and Literatures from Bocconi University in Milan before...
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| x Siegfried Kracauer |
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Siegfried Kracauer (February 8, 1889, Frankfurt am Main–November 26, 1966, New York) was a German-Jewish writer, journalist, sociologist, cultural critic, and film theorist.
Born to a Jewish family in Frankfurt, Kracauer studied architecture from...
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| x Christian Metz |
Christian Metz (December 12, 1931 - September/December 7, 1993) was a French film theorist, best known for pioneering the application of Ferdinand de Saussure's theories of semiology to film. During the 1970s, his work had a major impact on film...
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| x Rudolf Arnheim |
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 major books are Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye (1954), Visual Thinking ...
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| x Jacques Rivette |
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Jacques Rivette (born 1 March 1928) is a French film director.
With Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rivette is one of the more experimental of the French New Wave (nouvelle vague) directors. In common with many of his peers, he has a background in film...
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| x Béla Balázs |
Béla Balázs (4 August 1884, Szeged – 17 May 1949, Budapest), born Herbert Bauer, was a Hungarian-Jewish film critic, aesthete, writer and poet.
He was the son of German-born parents, adopting his nom de plume in newspaper articles written before his...
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| x Laura Mulvey |
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Laura Mulvey (born August 15, 1942) was educated at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She is currently professor of film and media studies at Birkbeck, University of London. She worked at the British Film Institute for many years before taking up her...
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| x Éric Rohmer |
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Éric Rohmer (born Maurice Henri Joseph Schérer, 4 April 1920, Tulle, France) is a French film director, screenwriter and film critic. A key figure in the post-war New Wave cinema, he is a former editor of influential French film journal Cahiers du...
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| x Claire Johnston |
Claire Johnston (1940-1987) was a feminist film theoretician. She wrote seminal essays on the construction of ideology in mainstream cinema (Hollywood and European auteur cinema).
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| x Dai Jinhua |
Dai Jinhua (1959) is Chinese feminist film critic. She teaches at Peking University as well as in the United States.
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| x Robert McKee |
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Robert McKee, born 1941, is a creative writing instructor who is widely known for his popular "Story Seminar", which he developed when he was a professor at the University of Southern California. McKee is the author of a "screenwriters' bible"...
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| x David Bordwell |
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David Bordwell (born 23 July 1947) is a prominent American film theorist, film critic, and author. He is the Jacques Ledoux Professor of Film Studies, Emeritus in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is...
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| x William Moritz |
William Moritz (May 6, 1941-March 12, 2004), film historian, specialized in visual music and experimental animation. His principle published works concerned abstract filmmaker and painter Oskar Fischinger. He also wrote extensively on other visual...
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| x Peter Wollen |
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Peter Wollen (b. 29 June 1938 London) is a film theorist and writer. He studied English at Christ Church, Oxford. Both political journalist and film theorist, Wollen's Signs and Meaning in the Cinema (1969), helped to transform the discipline of...
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| x Michael Betancourt |
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Michael Betancourt (born 1971) is a critical theorist, art and film historian, and animator. His principle published works focus on the technologies of visual music, new media art and theory, and formalist study of motion pictures. He is the curator...
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| x Carol J. Clover |
Carol J. Clover (born 31 July 1940 ) is an American professor of film studies, rhetoric language and Scandinavian mythology. . She has been widely published in her areas of expertise. Her 1992 book Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern...
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