Dudley Andrew “From Malraux to Bazin: the Psychology of Cinema and of Auteurs” Thursday February 17, 2011 12-1pm in Kresge 1-375 Dudley Andrew: R. Selden Rose Professor of Film and Comparative Literature Chairman, Comparative Literature Department Dudley Andrew is the R. Selden Rose Professor of Film and Comparative Literature. His areas of research include World Cinema (special attention to West Africa, Ireland, France, East Asia) Aesthetics (theories of the image, Film among the arts, adaptation) and French cinema and culture from the 1930s to today. His early books on film theory (The Major Film Theories, Concepts of Film Theory, and Andre Bazin, all published by Oxford Press) led to another set of books exploring key films and filmmakers: Film in the Aura of Art, a source book on Mizoguchi, a presentation of Breathless, and a “BFI classic” on Mizoguchi’s Sansho Dayu. His most ambitious works deal with France (Mists of Regret: Culture and Sensibility in Classic French Film -Princeton, 1995–and Popular Front Paris and the Poetics of Culture-Harvard, 2005). An overriding interest in visual aesthetics has resulted in an edited collection, The Image in Dispute: Art and cinema in the Age of Photography, and a contribution to Blackwell’s Manifesto series, What Cinema Is! Bazin’s Quest and its Charge. He has programmed films for The Guggenheim museum and served as a film festival judge. Recipient of the Guggenheim and several NEH fellowships, he was named Officier dans l’ordre des arts et des lettres by the French Cultural Ministry, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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