André Bazin (1918-1958) was a supremely influential French film critic and theorist, and cofounder of the renowned Cahiers du cinema.

Dudley Andrew is author of many books, including What Cinema Is!: Bazin's Quest and its Charge, and has edited several collections of André Bazin's writings. Named a Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, he is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature and of Film at Yale University and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Deborah Glassman has translated numerous scholarly works, including Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari: Intersecting Lives and History of Structuralism, both by François Dosse. Formerly the director of the CIEE-UC film program in Paris, she has worked for decades in France, Tunisia, and other Francophone countries.

Natasa Ďurovičová is a film scholar and translator who works on the history of language transfers in cinema. She recently retired from her position as house editor of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, where she also taught the program's translation workshop.