Dudley Andrew

R. Selden Rose Professor of Film and Comparative Literature
Co-Chair, Director of Graduate Studies,
Film Studies Program
dudley.andrew@yale.edu

Dudley Andrew directed over thirty dissertations at the University of Iowa before moving to Yale in 2000 where he is the R. Selden Rose Professor of Film and Comparative Literature and serves as Director of Graduate Studies in the Film Studies Program. His areas of research include World Cinema (special attention to West Africa, France, East Asia, Ireland) Aesthetics (theories of the image, Film among the arts) and French cinema and culture. He has published The Major Film Theories, Concepts of Film Theory, and Andre Bazin, all with Oxford U Press. Another set of books explore 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 in the 1930s: Mists of Regret: Culture and Sensibility in Classic French Film ( Princeton 1995) and Popular Front Parisand the Poetics of Culture, co-authored with Steven Ungar (Harvard, 2005). He has edited an anthology from Texas, The Image in Dispute (1997), has programmed films for The Guggenheim museum, and served as a film festival judge. He is the recipient of the Guggenheim and several NEH fellowships and was named Chevalier--later Officier--de l’ordre des arts et des lettres by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication. In 2006 he was inducted into the America Academy of Arts and Sciences.