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Film theorist table
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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, Ukrainian: Дзиґа Вертов) January 15, 1896–February 12, 1954) was a Soviet pioneer documentary film and newsreel director. His brothers Boris Kaufman and Mikhail Kaufman were also notable filmmakers.
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| x François Truffaut |
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François Roland Truffaut (French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃swa tʁyfo]; February 6, 1932 – October 21, 1984) was one of the founders of the French New Wave in filmmaking, and remains an icon of the French film industry. In a film career lasting just over a...
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| x Sergei Eisenstein |
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Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (Russian: Сергей Михайлович Эйзенштейн; January 23, 1898 – February 11, 1948) was a revolutionary Soviet Russian film director and film theorist noted in particular for his silent films Strike, Battleship Potemkin and...
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| x Hans Richter | Person |
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.
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| x Andrew Sarris | Film critic |
Andrew Sarris, born on October 31, 1928 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, is a U.S. film critic and a leading proponent of the auteur theory of criticism. He is generally credited with popularising this theory in the Americas and coining the...
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| x Jean-Luc Godard |
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Jean-Luc Godard (French pronounced [ʒɑ̃lyk gɔˈdaʀ]) (born on December 3, 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 attended...
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| x Kaja Silverman | Person |
Kaja Silverman is an American film theorist and art historian. She received a 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 | Person |
Claude Chabrol (pronounced [klod ʃaˈbʁɔl] in French) (born 24 June 1930, Paris) is a French film director, who has become well-known since his first film, Le Beau Serge (1958), and for his chilling tales of murder, including Le Boucher (1970).
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| x Slavoj Žižek |
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Slavoj Žižek (pronounced [ˈslavoj ˈʒiʒɛk]) (born 21 March 1949) is a Post-Marxist sociologist, philosopher, and cultural critic. He was born in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia (today in what is now Slovenia). He received a Doctor of Arts in Philosophy from...
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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 Derenkowsky, 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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Stan Brakhage (January 14, 1933 – March 9, 2003) was an American non-narrative filmmaker. He is regarded as one of the most important experimental filmmakers of the 20th century. He worked with various kinds of film: 16mm, 8mm, 35mm, and IMAX, and...
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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 started to write about film in 1943 and was a co-founder of the film magazine Cahiers...
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| x Teresa de Lauretis | Person |
Teresa de Lauretis is an Italian-born author and Professor 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 coming to...
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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 writer, journalist, sociologist, cultural critic, and film theorist.
Born to a Jewish family in Frankfurt, Kracauer studied architecture from 1907 to...
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| x Christian Metz | Film critic |
Christian Metz (1931-1993) was a French film theorist, best known for pioneering the application of Ferdinand de Saussure's theories of semiotics to film. During the 1970s, his work had a major impact on film theory in France, Britain and the United...
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| x Rudolf Arnheim | Person |
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 | Person |
Jacques Rivette (born March 1, 1928) is a French film director.
With Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rivette is considered to be the most experimental of the French New Wave directors. Like Godard, he had a background in film criticism, but he also loved...
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| x Béla Balázs | Person |
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 | Person |
Laura Mulvey (born August 15, 1941) 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 | Person |
Éric Rohmer (born Jean-Marie Maurice Scherer, 4 April 1920, Tulle, France) is a French film director and screenwriter. He is regarded as a key figure in the post-war New Wave cinema and is a former editor of influential French film journal Cahiers...
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| x Claire Johnston | Person |
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 | Person |
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 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 married to...
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| x William Moritz | Person |
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 | Person |
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 | Person |
Michael Betancourt (b. 1971, New Jersey) 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...
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| x Carol J. Clover | Person |
Carol J. Clover, (b. 31 July 1940 ) is a professor of film, rhetoric, and Scandinavian at the University of California, Berkeley. . She has been widely published in her areas of expertise. Her 1992 book Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the...
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