Dudley Andrew

Dudley Andrew (born July 28, 1945)[1][2] is an American film theorist. He is R. Selden Rose Professor 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 given a Guggenheim Fellowship[4] and was named an Officier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2006.[1] In 2011, he received the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Distinguished Career Achievement Award.[5] He is currently chair of the Department of Comparative Literature at Yale.[6]

Selected publications

References

  1. 1 2 "Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter A" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved April 18, 2011.
  2. "Andrew, Dudley, 1945-". Library of Congress Authorities. Retrieved April 15, 2012.
  3. "Summer Institute in Film launches with lectures by film theorist Dudley Andrew". Y-File. May 25, 2009. Retrieved December 21, 2009.
  4. "Dudley Andrew". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved January 25, 2010.
  5. "Distinguished Career Achievement Award". Society for Cinema and Media Studies.
  6. Dudley Andrew Yale Film Studies Faculty
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