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Leo Braudy
LEO BRAUDY updated: 10/11/2017
2008 N. Oxford Avenue
Los Angeles, California 90027
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Educated at
Swarthmore College (B.A., 1963) and Yale University (M.A., 1964; Ph.D., 1967).
Taught at
University of Southern California: University Professor, 1997-; Leo S. Bing Professor of English, 1985-; Professor of English, 1983-85; Chair, 1983-86; Acting Chair, 1998-1999.
Johns Hopkins University: Professor of English, 1976-83.
Columbia University: Professor of English, 1973-76; Associate Professor, 1970-73; Assistant Professor, 1968-70.
Yale University: Instructor, 1966-68.
Professor, Department of Cinema Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, Summer, 1974-77, 1979-80.
Visiting Professor of English, Yale, Spring, 1975.
Visiting College Seminar Instructor, Yale, Fall, 1973, 1974.
Faculty, Bread Loaf School of English, Summer, 1972, 1973.
Danforth Teaching Fellow, Yale, 1965-66.
Honors and Awards:
Presenter, History Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Festival, 2012.
Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2010.
Winner of Phi Kappa Phi Prize for best faculty book (From Chivalry to Terrorism), USC, 2004.
Best of the Best Books of the Year (From Chivalry to Terrorism), Los Angeles Times, 2003
Outstanding Books of the Year (From Chivalry to Terrorism), New York Times, Washington Post, 2003.
Los Angeles Times Book prize judge in History, 1993-1996.
Presidential Medallion, University of Southern California, 1994; reawarded, 2005.
Invited outside participant, UCI Humanities Center faculty seminar on Film Genre, September-December 1992.
Visiting Writer, American Academy, Rome, 1991.
Interviewed by Bill Moyers on his PBS series, A World of Ideas, 1990.
Winner of Phi Kappa Phi Prize for best faculty book (The Frenzy of Renown), USC, 1987.
Outstanding Books of the Year (The Frenzy of Renown), New York Times, 1986.
Nominee for National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism (for The Frenzy of Renown),1987.
Director, NEH Summer Seminar for Secondary School Teachers (visual and verbal narrative), 1986.
Fellow, Rockefeller Foundation Study and Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy, April 1986.
NEH Senior Research Fellowship, 1979.
Director, NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers (character in film and literature), 1978.
National Book Award Nominee in Arts and Letters (Jean Renoir), 1973.
Guggenheim Fellowship, 1971-72.
Visiting Fellow, Huntington Library, December-January, 1971-72.
Chamberlain Fellowship (Columbia), 1971.
ACLS grant-in-aid, 1971.
Member of the editorial boards of ELH, Film Quarterly, Huntington Library Quarterly, PostScript, Prose Studies, and formerly of PMLA, Raritan Review, and Zyzzyva. Humanities Editorial Board of the Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981-84; frequent reader of manuscripts for Oxford, Yale, Princeton, University of California, and other presses.
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Board member, Los Angeles Review of Books; Steering Committee chair, Sidney Harman Academy of Polymathic Studies; Member (and frequent Screening Committee and Program Committee member) of the Los Angeles Institute of the Humanities, Modern Language Association, Pen Center USA West (former Advisory Board and Awards Chair), American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, National Book Critics Circle, Academy of Literary Studies, Samuel Johnson Society of Southern California.
English Institute Supervisory Committee, 1981-84; Chair, 1983-84.
MLA Program Committee, 1984-87. Executive Committee, MLA Film Division, 1984-89; chair, 1988-89.
Served on many NEH review panels in a variety of granting areas from individual to institutional, including curriculum development, publishing subventions, and program site inspection.
Member of the Usage Panel, American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 3rd edition, 4th edition, 5th edition, 6th edition.
Listed in Twentieth-Century Authors, Contemporary Authors, Who's Who in America and other general reference works.
Books:
Haunted: On ghosts, witches, vampires, zombies, and other monsters of the natural and supernatural worlds. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016.
Trying to be Cool: Growing Up in the 1950s. Los Angeles: Asahina & Wallace, 2013.
The Hollywood Sign: Fantasy and Reality of An American Icon. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011.
On the Waterfront. British Film Institute Film Classics, London: Macmillan, 2005.
From Chivalry to Terrorism: War and the Changing Nature of Masculinity. New York: Knopf, 2003; paperback, 2005. Chinese edition, 2005; Spanish edition, 2008; Korean edition, 2011.
Native Informant: Essays on Film, Fiction and Popular Culture. Oxford University Press, 1992. Second edition (paperback), Figueroa Press, 2008.
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 “The Dream of Acceptability” reprinted in Stardom and Celebrity: A Reader, eds. Sean Redmond and Su Holmes. London: Sage, 2007.
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), 2009 (seventh edition).
Section entitled "Acting: Stage v. Screen" also reprinted in the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh 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), eighth edition. New York: Oxford, 2016.
Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings (with Marshall Cohen), seventh edition. New York: Oxford, 2009.
Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings (with Marshall Cohen), sixth 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.
Translations of seven essays and reviews about Truffaut's Shoot the Piano Player; reprinted in Shoot the Piano Player, ed. Peter Brunette. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1993.
Original Articles and Essays in Books and on Websites:
“From Subjects to Citizens.” In War in the Gender Zone, ed. Drew Gilpin Faust. University of North Carolina Press, forthcoming.
“Acting and Impersonation,” February 22, 2015. https://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/acting-impersonation
“The Nature of War: A 10-Best List from Leo Braudy,” May 26, 2014. https://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/nature-war-10-best-list-leo-braudy-2
“Pete Seeger Was No Llewyn Davis,” February 2, 2014. http://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/pete-seeger-llewyn-davis and Los Angeles Review of Books The Magazine, Spring 2014.
“Crowd Control,” Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal, Winter 2013-14.
“The Highbrow Populist: George Plimpton on Film,” Los Angeles Review of Books, May 26, 2013. http://lareviewofbooks.org/article.php?id=1699&fulltext=1
“Photography Changes the Way We Represent Ourselves and See Others” (On Walt Whitman’s use of photography), In Marvin Heiferman, ed. Photography Changes Everything. New York: Aperture/Smithsonian, 2012.
“The Time of Our Lives” [on Christian Marclay’s The Clock], Los Angeles Review of Books, July 14, 2011. http://lareviewofbooks.org/post/7607784204/the-time-of-our-lives
“The Director, That Miserable Son of a Bitch”: Kazan, Viva Zapata! And the Problem of Authority.” In Kazan Revisited, ed. Lisa Dombrowski. Wesleyan, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2011.
“Secular Anointings: Fame, Celebrity, and Charisma in the First Century of Mass Culture.” In Constructing Charisma: Celebrity, Fame, and Power in Nineteenth-Century Europe, eds. Edward Berenson and Eva Giloi. New York: Berghahn, 2010.
“Cultures and Communities.” In A Companion to Los Angeles, eds. William Deverell and Gregory Hise. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
Preface to E.F. Kitchen, Suburban Knights: A Return to the Middle Ages. Brooklyn: Powerhouse Books, 2010.
"Leo Braudy's Favorite Moments of Horror vs. Terror in Film," The Book of Lists: Horror, eds. Amy Wallace, Del Howison, and Scott Bradley. HarperCollins, October 2008
“Photography Changes the Way We Represent Ourselves and See Others” (On Walt Whitman’s use of photography), Click! Photography Changes Everything, Smithsonian Institution, 2007. http://www.click.si.edu/Story.aspx?story=296
“War Literature,” International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities, Routledge, 2007.
"Dryden, Marvell and the Design of Political Poetry." In Enchanted Ground: Reimagining John Dryden. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, December, 2004.
“Entertainment or Propaganda?” In Warners’ War: Politics, Pop Culture & Propaganda in Wartime Hollywood, eds. Martin Kaplan and Johanna Blakley. Los Angeles: Norman Lear Center Press, 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.
"Horror," essay for Lexikon Populäre Kultur, ed. Hans-Otto Hűgel. Stuttgart: Metzler Verlag,. 2003
“Celebrity,” Encyclopedia of American Studies, 4 vols., ed. G. T. Kurian. New York: Grolier. 2001.
"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.
"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.
Interviews:
“The Frenzy of Fame” (Interview with Leo Braudy), Zan Boag, New Philosopher, November 2015.
“ISIS propaganda; What is a public intellectual?” LARB Radio Hour, March 5, 2015. https://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/radio-hour-isis-propaganda-public-intellectual
“Oscar-worthy Acting and Literary Tourism,” LARB Radio Hour, February 26, 2015.. https://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/radio-hour-oscar-worthy-acting-literary-tourism
“An Interview with Leo Braudy,” Jennifer L. Geddes, Celebrity Culture issue, The Hedgehog Review, 2005.
"An Interview with Leo Braudy," Bill Moyers, A World of Ideas II. New York: Doubleday, 1990.
Articles and Essays in periodicals:
“Leo Braudy on books about Hollywood,” The Wall Street Journal, May 5-6, 2012.
“Educating a Leader” (books recommended to Obama and Romney), Los Angeles Times, August 19, 2012.
“Lots of History—if you look,” Los Angeles Times, April 22, 2012.
“Knowing the Performer from the Performance: Fame, Celebrity, and Literary Studies,” PMLA, October, 2011. Special issue: Celebrity, Notoriety, Fame.
“Afterword,” South Central Review, Fall 2011, Special issue: Re-Framing Renoir.
“Near Dark: An Appreciation,” Film Quarterly, 64, 2 (Winter 2010).
“Whose Country?” [No Country for Old Men], Film Quarterly, 61, 4 (June 2008).
“Eastwood’s WWII Diptych” [Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima], Film Quarterly, 60, 4 (Summer 2007).
“Trading 007 for Jack Bauer,” Los Angeles Times, September 10, 2006.
“An Army of One?” Compass (Kennedy School of Government), Spring 2004, 20-22. Reprinted in Military Leadership: In Pursuit of Excellence, fifth edition, ed. Robert L. Taylor and William E. Rosenbach. Cambridge, MA: Westview Books, 2005.
“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.
"What Really Happened at Little Bighorn?" Travel Holiday, April 1990.