大衛．鮑德威爾 (David Bordwell)

擁有愛荷華大學電影碩士及博士學位，是威斯康辛大學麥迪遜分校電影學院的榮譽教授。著作包括The Films of Carl-Theodor Dreyer（University of California Press, 1981），Narration in the Fiction Film(University of Wisconsin Press, 1985)，Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema（Princeton University Press, 1988），Making Meaning：Inference and Rhetoric in the Interpretation of Cinema（Harvard University Press, 1989），The Cinema of Eisenstein (Harvard University Press, 1993), On the History of Film Style (Harvard University Press, 1997), Planet Hong Kong：Popular Cinema and the Art of Entertainment (Harvard University Press, 2000)。Figures Traced in Light: On Cinematic Staging (University of California Press, 2005) ，The Way Hollywood Tells It: Story and style in Modern Movie (University of Californis Press, 2006)。曾榮獲優良大學教授獎，並獲頒哥本哈根大學榮譽學位。

克莉絲汀．湯普遜 (Kristin Thompson)

威斯康辛大學麥迪遜分校榮譽研究員，擁有愛荷華大學電影碩士學位，及威斯康辛大學麥迪遜分校之電影博士學位。著作有Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible: A Neoformalist Analysis (Princeton University Press, 1981)；Exporting Entertainment: Americ’s Place in World Film Markets, 1907-1934 (British Film Institute, 1985)；Breaking the Glass Armor: Neoformalist Film Analysis (Princeton University Press, 1988)；Wooster Proposes, Jeeves Disposes, or, Le Mot Juste (James H. Heineman, 1992)；Storytelling in the New Hollywood: Understanding Classical Narrative Technique (Harvard University Press, 1999)；Storytelling in Film and Television (Harvard University Press, 2003)；Herr Lubitsch Goes To Hollywood: German and American Film after World War I (Amsterdam University Press, 2005)；The Frodo Franchise: The Lord of the Rings and Modern Hollywood (University of California Press, forthcoming 2007)，並於業餘時間從事埃及古物學研究。

兩位作者合著Film History：An Introduction（McGraw-Hill, 1994；國內已由廖金鳳先生翻譯為《電影史》上下集，由台灣麥格羅．希爾公司於2000年出版），並與珍娜．史塔格（Janet Staiger，紐約大學電影教授）合著The Classical Hollywood Cinema: Film Style and Mode of Production to 1960 (Columbia University Press, 1985)。