Dudley Andrew

James Dudley Andrew(born July 28, 1945)is an Americanfilm theorist.He is R. Selden Rose Professor ofFilmandComparative LiteratureatYale 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".He particularly specializes inworld cinema,film theoryandaesthetics,andFrench cinema.He has also written onJapanese cinema,especially the work ofKenji Mizoguchi.He has been given aGuggenheim Fellowshipand was named an Officier of theOrdre des Arts et des Lettresby the French Ministry of Culture. He was elected a Fellow of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciencesin 2006.In 2011, he received theSociety for Cinema and Media StudiesDistinguished Career Achievement Award.Also he has been honored in some countries where his works has been translated and used as textbook in the field. In December 2020,University of Tehranheld a session in honor of Dudley Andrew with his presence as the keynote speaker. In this sessionNadia Maftounicalled Andrew a successful scholar in forming a whole new academic field.Dudley Andrew is currently chair of the Department of Comparative Literature at Yale.

Selected publications

• The Major Film Theories.Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 1976.
• André Bazin.New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.ISBN0-19-502165-7
• 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.ISBN0-691-00883-3
• Editor,The Image in Dispute: Art and Cinema in the Age of Photography.Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997.
• co-author with Carole Cavanaugh.Sansho Dayu (Sansho the Bailiff)(BFI Film Classics). British Film Institute, 2000.ISBN0-85170-541-3
• co-author with Steven Ungar.Popular Front Paris and the Poetics of Culture.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 and Translator,André Bazin's New Media.University of California Press, 2014