American film theorist
Dudley Andrew
Born (1947-07-28 ) July 28, 1947 (age 78) Academic background Education Academic work Institutions
James Dudley Andrew (born July 28, 1945)[ 1] [ 2] film theorist , particularly specializing inworld cinema ,aesthetics , andFrench cinema . He is R. Selden Rose Professor Emeritus ofFilm andComparative Literature atYale University , where he has taught since the year 2000.
Andrew earned a BA from theUniversity of Notre Dame in 1967, an MFA fromColumbia University in 1969, and a Ph.D from theUniversity of Iowa in 1972. He studied English and philosophy before learning filmmaking.
Before moving to Yale, he taught for thirty years at theUniversity of Iowa . Andrew's works have been widely translated, including into French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Serbo-Croatian, and Polish.[ 3]
He has been awarded aGuggenheim Fellowship [ 4] Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture, its highest distinction. In 2006, he was elected a Fellow of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences .[ 1] Society for Cinema and Media Studies Distinguished Career Achievement Award.[ 5]
Selected publications [ edit ] The Major Film Theories. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 1976.André Bazin. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.ISBN 0-19-502165-7 Kenji Mizoguchi: A Guide to References and Resources with Paul Andrew. G.K. Hall & Co., 1981.Concepts in Film Theory. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 1984.Film in the Aura of Art. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986Breathless: Jean-Luc Godard, Director. (Rutgers Films in Print series). Rutgers University Press, 1988.Mists of Regret: Culture and Sensibility in Classic French Film. Princeton:Princeton University Press , 1995.ISBN 0-691-00883-3 Editor,The Image in Dispute: Art and Cinema in the Age of Photography. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997. Sanshô Dayû (Sansho the Bailiff) with Carole Cavanaugh. (BFI Film Classics). British Film Institute, 2000.ISBN 0-85170-541-3 Popular Front Paris and the Poetics of Culture with Steven Ungar. Cambridge:Harvard University Press , 2005.What Cinema Is! UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010Editor,Opening Bazin: Postwar Film Theory and Its Afterlife. Oxford University Press, 2011 Editor, with Anne Gillain.A Companion to François Truffaut. Wiley-Blackwell, 2013 Editor and Translator,André Bazin's New Media. University of California Press, 2014 Editor,André Bazin on Adaptation: Cinema's Literary Imagination. University of California Press, 2022 French Cinema: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2023^a b "Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter A" (PDF) .American Academy of Arts and Sciences .Archived (PDF) from the original on June 18, 2006. RetrievedApril 18, 2011 .^ "Andrew, Dudley, 1945-" .Library of Congress Authorities .Archived from the original on December 16, 2019. RetrievedApril 15, 2012 .^ "Dudley Andrew" . Film Studies.Yale University .Archived from the original on February 14, 2012. RetrievedDecember 3, 2009 .^ "Dudley Andrew" .John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation . Archived fromthe original on June 22, 2011. RetrievedJanuary 25, 2010 .^ "Distinguished Career Achievement Award" .Society for Cinema and Media Studies . RetrievedSeptember 4, 2025 .
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