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Leo Braudy (born June 11, 1941 in Philadelphia, PA) is University Professor and Bing Professor of English at the University of Southern California, where he teaches seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English literature, film history and criticism, and American culture. He has previously taught at Yale, Columbia, and Johns Hopkins University. He is best known for his cultural studies scholarship on celebrity, masculinity, and film, and is frequently sought after for interviews on popular culture, Hollywood cinema, and the American zeitgeist of the 1950s.

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[edit] Background

Braudy is the son of Edward and Zelda (Smith) Braudy; he received his B.A. from Swarthmore College in 1963 and his M.A. 1963 and Ph.D. 1974 from Yale University. He married Susan Orr (an editor), August 27, 1964 (divorced December 13, 1973); and later married the painter Dorothy McGahee in December of 1974. They live and work in Los Angeles.


[edit] Scholarship

In addition to numerous articles and reviews published in newspapers, magazines, and academic journals, Braudy is the author of seven books: Narrative Form in History and Fiction: Hume, Fielding, and Gibbon (Princeton, 1970); Jean Renoir: The World of his Films (Doubleday, 1972), which was a finalist for the National Book Award in Arts and Letters; The World in a Frame: What We See in Films (Doubleday, 1976); The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and its History (Oxford, 1986), which won the Phi Kappa Phi prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism; Native Informant: Essays on Film, Fiction and Popular Culture (Oxford, 1992); From Chivalry to Terrorism: War and the Changing Nature of Masculinity (Knopf, 2003), which won the Phi Kappa Phi prize and was a Los Angeles Times Best of the Best for 2003; and On the Waterfront (British Film Institute, 2006), a study of the film's production, the post-war values it reflects, and the controversy surrounding Elia Kazan's testimony before the House Unamerican Activities Committee.

Second editions of his books include The World in a Frame (University of Chicago Press, 1984), Jean Renoir, with a new Preface (Columbia University Press, 1989), and The Frenzy of Renown, with a new Afterword (Vintage Books, 1997). A 25th anniversary edition of The World in a Frame was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2002, and a second edition of Narrative Form, retitled The Plot of Time, was issued by Figueroa Press in 2003.

He has also edited anthologies dealing with Norman Mailer (Prentice-Hall, 1972) and François Truffaut's Shoot the Piano Player (Prentice-Hall, 1972). He co-edited Great Film Directors (Oxford, 1979) with Morris Dickstein, and with Marshall Cohen the fourth, fifth, and sixth editions of the widely-used anthology Film Theory and Criticism (Oxford, 1992, 1998, 2004). He has been a contributor to a number of anthologies including The Harvard Guide to Contemporary American Writing, edited by Daniel Hoffman (Harvard, 1979).

His reviews and articles have appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post Book World, International Herald Tribune, London Sunday Express, Travel Holiday, Times Literary Supplement, Film Quarterly, and Harper's, among other publications.


[edit] Memberships

In addition to serving on the editorial boards of ELH, Film Quarterly, Raritan Review, PostScript, Eighteenth-Century Life, and Prose Studies, Braudy is a member of the Usage Panel for The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, and has frequently been an expert witness on issues of plagiarism and copyright infringement in film and television.

He has served on the board of directors of PEN Center USA West, and is also a member of The Author's Guild, the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities, the Modern Language Association, the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, and the National Book Critics Circle.


[edit] Film and Television Appearances

Braudy frequently appears as a commentator on popular culture, cultural history, and films on a variety of television shows, including Crossfire, World of Wonder, The Maria Shriver Show, and The South Bank Show. A transcript of his interview with Bill Moyers on Moyers's PBS series appeared in The World of Ideas (Doubleday, 1990).

Film appearances include:

  • Facing the Past (2005)—Braudy is interviewed in this featurette included in the DVD of Elia Kazan's 1957 film A Face in the Crowd.
  • Empire of Dreams: The Story of the 'Star Wars' Trilogy (2004)—This feature-length documentary is included with the 4-Disc Star Wars Trilogy DVD set.
  • Mayor of the Sunset Strip (2003)—Braudy makes a brief appearance as an authority on fame in this documentary about the rise and fall of disc jockey Rodney Bingenheimer.
  • Our Infatuation with Fame: Leo Braudy (1990)—In this interview, Bill Moyers and Leo Braudy discuss the pleasures and perils of celebrity.


[edit] Awards and Honors

Among other awards, Professor Braudy has received a Guggenheim Fellowship (1971-72) as well as a Senior Scholar Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has directed NEH Summer Seminars for both high school and college teachers, and has been a fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation at the Villa Serbelloni in Bellagio, Italy as well as a writer-in-residence at the American Academy in Rome.

He is listed in Twentieth-Century Authors, Contemporary Authors, Who's Who in America and other general reference works.

[edit] Complete Bibliography

Books:

  • On the Waterfront, British Film Institute Film Classics, London, 2005.
  • From Chivalry to Terrorism: War and the Changing Nature of Masculinity. New York: Knopf, 2003; paperback, 2005.
  • Native Informant: Essays on Film, Fiction and Popular Culture. Oxford University Press, 1992.
  • The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and Its History. Oxford University Press, 1986; paperback, 1987. Second edition (paperback) with a new Afterword, Vintage, 1997.
  • Section entitled "Photography & Fame" reprinted in Roots and Branches: Contemporary Essays by West Coast Writers, ed.Howard Junker. San Francisco: Mercury House, 1991.
  • The World in a Frame: What We See in Films. Doubleday, 1976 (paperback, 1977); Second edition (paperback), University of Chicago, 1984; Twenty-fifth anniversary edition, 2002.
  • Section entitled "Genre: The Conventions of Connection" reprinted in Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings, Gerald Mast and Marshall Cohen, eds. New York: Oxford, 1979 (second edition); 1985 (third edition); 1992 (fourth edition); 1999 (fifth edition); 2004 (sixth edition).
  • Section entitled "Acting: Stage v. Screen" also reprinted in the fourth and fifth editions, as well as in Theater and Film: A Comparative Anthology, Robert Knopf , ed. New haven: Yale University Press, 2005.
  • Section entitled "Truffaut, Godard, and the Genre Film as Self-Conscious Art" reprinted in Shoot the Piano Player, ed. Peter Brunette. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1993.
  • Jean Renoir: The World of his Films. Doubleday, 1972 (paperback, 1973; English edition, 1977); second edition, Columbia University Press, 1989.
  • Narrative Form in History and Fiction: Hume, Fielding, and Gibbon. Princeton, 1970; second edition (as The Plot of Time, Los Angeles: Figueroa Press, 2003).


Anthologies edited and co-edited:

  • Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings (with Marshall Cohen), fifth edition. New York: Oxford, 2004.
  • Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings (with Marshall Cohen), fifth edition. New York: Oxford, 1998.
  • Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings (with Gerald Mast and Marshall Cohen), fourth edition. New York: Oxford, 1992.
  • Great Film Directors: A Critical Anthology (with Morris Dickstein). Oxford, 1979.
  • Norman Mailer: A Collection of Critical Essays. Prentice-Hall, 1972.
  • Truffaut's Shoot the Piano Player: A Collection of Critical Essays. Prentice-Hall, 1972.
    • Reprinted in Shoot the Piano Player, ed. Peter Brunette. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1993.


Original Articles and Essays in Books:

  • "Dryden, Marvell and the Design of Political Poetry." In Enchanted Ground: Reimagining John Dryden. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, December, 2004.
  • Leo Braudy and Robert P. Kolker, “An Interview with Robert Altman.” Film Voices: Interviews from Post Script, ed. Gerald Duchovnay. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004.
  • Leo Braudy and Mark Crispin Miller, “An Interview with Sydney Pollack.” Film Voices: Interviews from Post Script, ed. Gerald Duchovnay. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004.
  • "Celebrity." In The Encyclopedia of American Studies, 2002.
  • "Horror," essay for Lexikon Populäre Kultur, ed. Hans-Otto Hűgel. Stuttgart: Metzler Verlag,. 2003
  • "Entertainment: Show Biz Turns Big Biz," in Century of Change: America in Pictures, 1900-2000, ed. Richard B. Stolley. Boston: Little, Brown, 2000.
  • "Jean Renoir," American National Biography, eds. John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, 24 vols. Oxford, 1999.
  • "The Genre of Nature," Refiguring American Film Genres, ed. Nick Browne. University of California Press, 1998.
  • "Afterword: Rethinking Remakes" to Play It Again, Sam: Retakes on Remakes, eds. Andrew Horton and Stuart Y. McDougal. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1998.
  • "Unturning the Century: The Missing Decade of the 1690s," Les Fins de Siécle: English Poetry in 1590, 1690, 1790, 1890, 1990, ed. Elaine Scarry. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.
  • "Varieties of Literary Affection," The Profession of Eighteenth-Century Literature: Reflections on an Institution, ed. Leo Damrosch. University of Wisconsin Press, 1992.
  • "An Interview with Leo Braudy" in Bill Moyers, A World of Ideas II. New York: Doubleday, 1990.
  • "Sequel," in The International Encyclopedia of Communications, ed. Erik Barnouw. Oxford, 1989.
  • "Genre and the Resurrection of the Past," Shadows of the Magic Lamp, ed. George E. Slusser and Eric S. Rabkin. Carbondale: University of Southern Illinois Press, 1985.
  • "Succeeding in Language," The State of the Language, eds. Leonard Michaels and Christopher Ricks. University of California, 1980.
  • "Realists, Naturalists, and Novelists of Manners," The Harvard Guide to Contemporary American Writing, ed. Daniel Hoffman, Harvard, 1979.
  • "Rossellini: From Open City to General della Rovere," Great Film Directors: A Critical Anthology, eds. Leo Braudy and Morris Dickstein, Oxford, 1979.
  • "Penetration and Impenetrability in Clarissa," in New Approaches to Eighteenth-Century Literature, ed. Phillip Harth. Columbia, 1974 (English Institute Essays).
    • Reprinted in Modern Essays on Eighteenth-Century Literature, ed. Leopold Damrosch, jr. New York: Oxford, 1988.


Selected articles and essays in periodicals:

  • "An Army of One?" Compass (Kennedy School of Government), Spring 2004, 20-22.
  • "Literature of War: Missing in Action," Los Angeles Times, March 8, 2004, B11.
  • "Do You Wanna Dance Under the Moonlight?" Michigan Quarterly Review, Spring 2003.
  • "A Sense of Place," Los Angeles Times. October 2002.
  • "Doing Public Pedagogy: Speaking Outside the Walls," Profession 1999.
  • "Fame: Why Are We So Fascinated by Famous People?" Swarthmore College Bulletin, September 1998.
  • "Renoir at Home: Interview with Jean Renoir," Film Quarterly (Fall 1996).
  • "'No Body's Perfect': Method Acting and 50s Culture," Michigan Quarterly Review (Winter 1996).
    • Reprinted in The Movies: Texts, Receptions, Exposures, eds. Laurence Goldstein and Ira Konigsberg. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996.
  • "The Auteur Who Coined the Word" [on Jean Renoir], Los Angeles Times, July 15, 1994.
  • "Ceremonies of Innocence," Raritan Review, Spring 1994.
  • "Remembering Masculinity: Premature Ejaculation Poetry of the Seventeenth Century," Michigan Quarterly Review, Winter 1994.
  • "An Operatic Heroine for Our Time" (on the Marilyn opera), New York Times, September 20, 1993, 2, 45.
    • Reprinted in the International Herald Tribune and, in a revised form, in the London Sunday Express, September 27.
  • "In My Fifties" (memoir), Michigan Quarterly Review, Fall 1993.
    • Reprinted in The Male Body: Features, Destinies, Exposures, ed. Laurence Goldstein. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994).
  • "A 'Dynasty' Series Set in Blah Beverly Hills," Newsday, October 27, 1991.
  • "Satire into Myth" [on Thelma and Louise], Film Quarterly, 45, 2 (Winter 1991-92), 28-29.
    • Reprinted in Film Quarterly: Forty Years—--A Selection, eds. Brian Henderson and Ann Martin. Berkeley: University of California Press, Spring, 1999.
  • "Democracy and the Humanities," inside english (journal of the English Council of California Two-Year Colleges), May 1991.
  • "In the Arts, Tomorrow Begins with Yesterday," New York Times, July 1, 1990, Section 2: 1, 16-17.
  • "California Criticism: From Tweed Jacket to Wet-Suit," London Times Literary Supplement, December 15-21, 1989.
  • "Academic Subtitles," Harper's, July 1989.
  • "Renewing the Edge," Zyzzyva, 5(Summer 1989).
    • Reprinted in in Roots and Branches: Contemporary Essays by West Coast Writers, ed. Howard Junker. San Francisco: Mercury House, 1991.
  • "The Sacraments of Genre," Film Quarterly, Spring, 1986.
    • Reprinted in Film Quarterly: Forty Years--A Selection, eds. Brian Henderson and Ann Martin. Berkeley: University of California Press, Spring, 1999.
  • "Framing the Innocent Eye: 42nd Street and Persona," Michigan Quarterly Review, Winter, 1983.
  • "The Double Detachment of Ernst Lubitsch," MLN, Winter, 1983.
  • "Popular Culture and Personal Time," Yale Review, Summer 1982.
  • "Providence, Paranoia, and the Novel," ELH, 48(1981).
  • "Jesus and the Publicity of Inner Worth." Raritan Review, Winter, 1981.
  • "The Crisis in Film Book Publishing," American Film, January-February, 1981.
  • "A Genealogy of Mind" (on Susan Sontag), New Republic, November, 1980.
  • "Edward Gibbon and `The Privilege of Fiction,'" Prose Studies, September, 1980.
  • "The Form of the Sentimental Novel," Novel, Fall, 1973.
    • Reprinted in The Eighteenth Century Novel: Smollett to Austen. London: Longman's Critical Readings, 1998.
  • "Blue Tango," Partisan Review, Fall, 1973.
  • "Daniel Defoe and the Anxieties of Autobiography," Genre, March, 1973.
  • "Writing About Film," in Writing About Literature, Scott-Foresman, 1973.
  • "Leaving the Game: Renoir in the Thirties," Columbia Forum, Winter, 1971 (excerpt from book).
  • "The Difficulties of Little Big Man," Film Quarterly, Fall, 1971.
  • "Movie Mythographer" (on three books by Parker Tyler), New York Times Book Review, August 15, 1971.
  • "Talking About Movies," Yale Review, Winter, 1970.
  • "Fanny Hill and Materialism," Eighteenth-Century Studies, Fall, 1970.
  • "Lexicography and Biography in the Preface to Johnson's Dictionary," Studies in English Literature, Summer, 1970.
  • "Zola on Film: The Ambiguities of Naturalism," Yale French Studies, June 1969.
  • "Newsreel: A Report," Film Quarterly, Winter, 1968.
    • Reprinted as "On Two Fronts" in John Stuart Katz, ed. Perspectives on the Study of Film, Boston: Little-Brown, 1971.
  • "Hitchcock, Truffaut, and the Irresponsible Audience," Film Quarterly, Summer, 1968.
    • Reprinted in Albert J. LaValley, ed. Focus on Hitchcock. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1969.


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