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Director and film critic; One of the central figures of the French New Wave; Known for works like 'Breathless' and 'Contempt' and for his revolutionary approach to narrative and editing.

Philosopher and gender theorist; Though not exclusively film-focused, her theories are applied to film studies, particularly her concept of 'performative acts'; Wrote 'Gender Trouble' and 'Bodies That Matter'.

Introduced the 'auteur-structuralist' method; Wrote influential essays such as 'The Auteur Theory' and books including 'Signs and Meaning in the Cinema'.

French philosopher and sociologist; His work 'The Cinema, or the Imaginary Man' discusses the psychological implications of the cinema experience.

French director and theorist; Considered part of the impressionist cinema movement; Wrote 'Bonjour Cinema' and advocated for the concept of photogénie.

German Jewish philosopher and cultural critic; Argued about the effects of mechanical reproduction on art in his seminal essay 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction'.

Psychiatrist and postcolonial theorist; His works such as 'Black Skin, White Masks' and 'The Wretched of the Earth' are influential in studies of race, culture, and film.

Film theorist; Her research involves the study of film time and temporality, film theory, and feminist film theory; Authored 'The Emergence of Cinematic Time' and 'Femme Fatales'.

Pioneered the theory of montage in film; Works include 'Battleship Potemkin' and 'Strike'; Believed that film editing could be used for more than just expounding a scene or moment, but for creating meaning.

Russian filmmaker and theorist; Devised the 'Kuleshov Effect', demonstrating the power of montage; His works helped lay the foundation for Soviet montage theory.

Known for her work on visual pleasure and narrative cinema; Introduced the concept of the 'Male Gaze'; Key work includes 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema'.

Renowned for her work on film genres, especially pornographic film; Introduced the concept of 'body genres'; Authored 'Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the Frenzy of the Visible'.

Philosopher of art and film critic; Proposed the 'moderate moralism' theory and was a critic of 'psychocinematics'; Key works include 'The Philosophy of Horror' and 'Mystifying Movies'.

Notable for his concept of the 'Cinema of Attractions'; Focuses on early cinema history, visual culture, and the avant-garde; Key works include 'D.W. Griffith and the Origins of American Narrative Film'.

Film theorist and historian; Often collaborates with David Bordwell; Works focus on film history, narrative theory, and the cognitive approach to film; Co-authored 'Film History: An Introduction'.

Controversial philosopher and cultural critic; Known for applying psychoanalytic theory to film studies; Wrote 'The Pervert's Guide to Cinema' and 'Enjoy Your Symptom!'.

Cultural theorist and educator; Her research spans sociology, cultural history, and film; Key texts include 'Cinema, Censorship, and Sexuality, 1909-1925' and 'The Power of the Image: Essays on Representation and Sexuality'.

British cultural critic and film theorist; Specializes in race, sexuality, and representation in film; Wrote 'Stars' and 'White: Essays on Race and Culture'.

Canadian film theorist; Focuses on issues of film narratology and early cinema; Key works include 'From Plato to Lumière' and 'Cinema and Narration'.

Applied both Saussurean and Freudian concepts to film analysis; Major proponent of structuralist film theory; Key works include 'Film Language' and 'The Imaginary Signifier'.

Scholar, feminist, and social activist; Her works examine race, gender, and media representation; Important works include 'Black Looks: Race and Representation'.

American film and media theorist; Known for her phenomenological approach to film experience; Wrote 'The Address of the Eye: A Phenomenology of Film Experience'.

French Marxist theorist and filmmaker; Best known for 'Society of the Spectacle', which critiques contemporary consumer culture and mass media; Influential in the field of situationist cinema.

Prominent figure in contemporary film theory; Known for his analytic theories and cognitivism; Key works include 'Narration in the Fiction Film' and 'Film Art: An Introduction'.

Developed semiotic analysis of cinema; Introduced concepts such as the 'punctum' and 'studium' in photography criticism which are also applied to film; Wrote 'Camera Lucida' and 'Mythologies'.

Advocate of 'realism' in films, deep focus cinematography, long takes; Founder of the influential film magazine 'Cahiers du cinéma'; Key works include 'What Is Cinema?' and 'The Evolution of the Language of Cinema'.

Film theorist specializing in psychoanalytic film theory; Notable works include 'Representing the Woman: Cinema and Psychoanalysis' and her discourse on fantasy and the representation of women in film.

French film theorist; Known for his analysis of film narrative and the use of psychoanalysis; Work includes 'The Analysis of Film'.

American film critic known for promoting the 'auteur theory' in the United States; Key writer for 'The Village Voice'; Authored 'The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929-1968'.