André Bazin (1918-1958) was the premier film theorist of the first century of cinema. Primarily associated with the journal Cahiers du cinéma, which he cofounded in 1951, he wrote for many other journals as well.

Editor and translator Dudley Andrew is R. Selden Rose Professor of Film and Comparative Literature at Yale University. His books include The Major Film Theories, Concepts in Film Theory, André Bazin, Film in the Aura of Art, Sansho Dayu, Mists of Regret: Culture and Sensibility in Classic French Film, and Popular Front Paris and the Poetics of Culture.