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Braudy, Leo Beal was born on June 11, 1941 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Edward and Zelda Braudy.
( Now a classic, The World in a Frame covers the history ...)
Now a classic, The World in a Frame covers the history of popular American films from the 1930s to the 1970s. Leo Braudy, one of America's leading film critics, gives an account of the histories of visual style and film genres, as ell as techniques of characterization—all in an evolving cultural context. This twenty-fifth anniversary edition includes a new preface addressing developments in film since 1976.
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("Remarkably ambitious . . . an impressive tour de force."...)
"Remarkably ambitious . . . an impressive tour de force." --Washington Post Book World For Alexander the Great, fame meant accomplishing what no mortal had ever accomplished before. For Julius Caesar, personal glory was indistinguishable from that of Rome. The early Christians devalued public recognition, believing that the only true audience was God. And Marilyn Monroe owed much of her fame to the fragility that led to self-destruction. These are only some of the dozens of figures that populate Leo Braudy's panoramic history of fame, a book that tells us as much about vast cultural changes as it does about the men and women who at different times captured their societies' regard. Spanning thousands of years and fields ranging from politics to literature and mass media, The Frenzy of Renown explores the unfolding relationship between the famous and their audiences, between fame and the representations that make it possible. Hailed as a landmark at its original publication and now reissued with a new Afterword covering the last tumultuous decade, here is a major work that provides our celebrity-obsessed, post-historical society with a usable past. "Expansive . . . Braudy excels at rocketing a general point into the air with the fuel of drama. " --Harper's
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(Native Informant is Leo Braudy's first book after his wid...)
Native Informant is Leo Braudy's first book after his widely acclaimed and award-winning history of fame, The Frenzy of Renown. With a verve that breaks down the boundaries between film, literature, and popular culture, Braudy discusses writers and filmmakers such as Alfred Hitchcock, Daniel Defoe, Ernst Lubitsch, Emile Zola, Susan Sontag, and Richard Condon. His subjects include madness in the eighteenth century, the Hollywood blacklist, westerns, and pornography. Throughout this lively and insightful collection, his perspective is not that of the critic as a detached voice of professional authority but as a member of a particular culture--a native informant--whose gaze looks simultaneously inward and outward, subjective but self-aware. Like the wide-ranging Frenzy of Renown, Native Informant will appeal to specialist and interested reader alike.
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The Description for this book, Narrative Form in History and Fiction: Hume, Fielding, and Gibbon, will be forthcoming.
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Braudy, Leo Beal was born on June 11, 1941 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Edward and Zelda Braudy.
Bachelor of Arts, Swarthmore College, 1963; Master of Arts, Yale University, 1964; Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1967.
Instructor English, Yale University, New Haven, 1966-1968; assistant professor, Columbia University, New York City, 1968-1970; associate professor, Columbia University, 1970-1973; professor, Columbia University, 1973-1976; Professor of English, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1977-1983; Professor of English, department chairman, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 1983-1986; Leo S. Bing Professor of English, University of Southern California, since 1986.
(Native Informant is Leo Braudy's first book after his wid...)
( The Description for this book, Narrative Form in Histor...)
( Now a classic, The World in a Frame covers the history ...)
("Remarkably ambitious . . . an impressive tour de force."...)
("Remarkably ambitious . . . an impressive tour de force."...)
Member Modern Language Association, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, National Book Critics Circuit, Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association Center-United States of America West (board directors 1989-1992, 94-95).
Married Dorothy Wood McGahee, December 24, 1974.