Pioneers : the silent era and the transition to sound. Vachel Lindsay ; Hugo Munsterberg ; Carl Sandburg ; Robert E. Sherwood ; Edmund Wilson ; H.L. Mencken ; H.D. ; Alexander Bakshy ; Harry Alan Potamkin ; Gilbert Seldes ; Pare Lorentz ; William Troy ; Cecilia Ager ; Andre Sennwald ; Rudolph Arnheim ; Lincoln Kirstein ; Meyer Levin
Masters and moonlighters : the late 1930s, World War II, and the postwar era. Otis Ferguson ; Melvin B. Tolson ; Paul Goodman ; James Agee ; Siegfried Kracauer ; Robert Warshow ; Ralph Ellison ; Martha Wolfenstein and Nathan Leites
The golden age of movie criticism : the 1950s through the 70s. Barbara Deming ; Manny Farber ; Parker Tyler ; Eugene Archer ; Arlene Croce ; Jonas Mekas ; Stanley Kauffmann ; Andrew Sarris ; Susan Sontag ; Pauline Kael ; Dwight Macdonald ; Renata Adler ; Donald Phelps ; Vincent Canby ; William S. Pechter ; Molly Haskell ; Paul Schrader ; John Simon ; Brendan Gill ; Richard Corliss ; James Baldwin ; Penelope Gilliatt
Reconsiderations and renegade perspectives : the 1980s to the present: Walter Kerr ; J. Hoberman ; Stanley Cavell ; Richard Schickel ; Armond White ; David Denby ; Geoffrey O'Brien ; Paul Rudnick ; David Thomson ; bell hooks ; Kenneth Turan ; Jonathan Rosenbaum ; Roger Ebert ; Stuart Klawans ; James Harvey ; Kent Jones ; John Ashbery ; Carrie Rickey ; Gilberto Perez ; A.O. Scott ; Manohla Dargis.
