Film theory seeks to systematize film as a medium. It may use Critical theory, Formalism, Marxism, philosophy of language, or Lacanian psychoanalysis, while film criticism analyzes and examines a specific film (though larger generalizations can still be deduced from criticism).
Pages in category "Film theorists"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 216 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
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- Béla Balázs
- Richard Barsam
- Peter Bart
- Jeanine Basinger
- Jean-Louis Baudry
- André Bazin
- Jonathan Beller
- Daniel Bernardi
- Michael Betancourt
- Martine Beugnet
- Peter Biskind
- Bjørn Bjørnsen
- Peter Bogdanovich
- Pascal Bonitzer
- David Bordwell
- Stan Brakhage
- Sérgio Dias Branco
- Leo Braudy (academic)
- Kevin Brownlow
- Noël Burch
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- Anna Camaiti Hostert
- Vincent Canby
- Ricciotto Canudo
- Noël Carroll
- Manuel Carvalheiro
- Francesco Casetti
- Drew Casper
- Stanley Cavell
- Claude Chabrol
- Charles Champlin
- Alan Cholodenko
- Ian Christie (film scholar)
- Nick Clooney
- Carol J. Clover
- Pam Cook
- Roger Corman
- Jean-Pierre Coursodon
- Elizabeth Cowie
- Peter Cowie
- Judith Crist
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- Leonard Maltin
- Laura U. Marks
- Gerald Mast
- Joseph McBride (writer)
- Colin McGinn
- Todd McGowan
- Robert McKee
- Michael Medved
- Christian Metz (theorist)
- Elvis Mitchell
- Jean Mitry
- William Moritz
- Luc Moullet
- Léon Moussinac
- John Kenneth Muir
- Suman Mukhopadhyay
- Stephen Mulhall
- Eddie Muller
- Laura Mulvey
- Walter Murch
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- Shlomo Sand
- Joaquim Sapinho
- Jack Sargeant (writer)
- Andrew Sarris
- Tadao Sato
- Richard Schickel
- William Schoell
- Martin Scorsese
- Linda Seger
- Steven Shaviro
- Viktor Shklovsky
- Alain Silver
- Kaja Silverman
- Anthony Slide
- Murray Smith (philosopher and film theorist)
- Vivian Sobchack
- Steven Spielberg
- Jackie Stacey
- Robert Stam
- Isolde Standish
- Tom Stempel
- David Sterritt
- Jack Stevenson
- D. I. Suchianu
- Heiichi Sugiyama
- Yevgeny Surkov