*Francesco Casetti, "Theories of Cinema, 1945-1990", Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999.
Pomembni avtorji tega časa so: Germaine Dulac, Louis Delluc, Jean Epstein, Sergei Eisenstein, Lev Kuleshov, Dziga Vertov, Paul Rotha, Rudolf Arnheim, Béla Balázs in Siegfried Kracauer.