James Dudley Andrew (born July 28, 1945)[1][2] is an American film theorist. He is R. Selden Rose Professor Emeritus of Film and Comparative Literature at Yale University, where he has taught since the year 2000. Before moving to Yale, he taught for thirty years at the University of Iowa. Andrew has been called, on the occasion of one of his invited lecture series, "one of the most influential scholars in the areas of theory, history and criticism".[3] He particularly specializes in world cinema, film theory and aesthetics, and French cinema. He has also written on Japanese cinema, especially the work of Kenji Mizoguchi. He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship[4] and was named a Commandeur in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture, its highest distinction. In 2006, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[1] In 2011, he received the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Distinguished Career Achievement Award.[5] Dudley Andrew studied English and Philosophy, then learned filmmaking before getting in on the ground floor just as Film Studies was taking off in the USA. After more than 50 years as a teacher and scholar, he has directed the dissertations of many of today’s leaders in Film studies, and his books have been widely translated, including into French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, Arabic, Farsi, Turkish, Serbo-Croatian, and Polish.[6]
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, 1986
- Breathless: 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, 2010
- Editor, 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
Education
editB.A. University of Notre Dame, 1967 MFA Columbia University, 1969 Ph.D. University of Iowa, 1972
References
edit- ^ a b "Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter A" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved April 18, 2011.
- ^ "Andrew, Dudley, 1945-". Library of Congress Authorities. Retrieved April 15, 2012.
- ^ "Summer Institute in Film launches with lectures by film theorist Dudley Andrew". Y-File. May 25, 2009. Retrieved December 21, 2009.
- ^ "Dudley Andrew". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Archived from the original on June 22, 2011. Retrieved January 25, 2010.
- ^ "Distinguished Career Achievement Award". Society for Cinema and Media Studies.
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