LEO BRAUDY updated: 10/11/20172008 N. Oxford AvenueLos Angeles, California 90027(323) 464-5207 (home)(213) 740-3751 (office)(213) 957-0243 (fax)e-mail: braudy@usc.edu

Educated atSwarthmore College (B.A., 1963) and Yale University (M.A., 1964; Ph.D., 1967).

Taught atUniversity of Southern California: University Professor, 1997-; Leo S. Bing Professor of English, 1985-; Professor of English, 1983-85; Chair, 1983-86; Acting Chair, 1998-1999.Johns Hopkins University: Professor of English, 1976-83.Columbia University: Professor of English, 1973-76; Associate Professor, 1970-73; Assistant Professor, 1968-70.Yale University: Instructor, 1966-68.

Professor, Department of Cinema Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, Summer, 1974-77, 1979-80.Visiting Professor of English, Yale, Spring, 1975.Visiting College Seminar Instructor, Yale, Fall, 1973, 1974.Faculty, Bread Loaf School of English, Summer, 1972, 1973.Danforth Teaching Fellow, Yale, 1965-66.

Honors and Awards:Presenter, History Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Festival, 2012.Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2010.Winner of Phi Kappa Phi Prize for best faculty book (From Chivalry to Terrorism), USC, 2004.Best of the Best Books of the Year (From Chivalry to Terrorism), Los Angeles Times, 2003Outstanding Books of the Year (From Chivalry to Terrorism), New York Times, Washington Post, 2003.Los Angeles Times Book prize judge in History, 1993-1996.Presidential Medallion, University of Southern California, 1994; reawarded, 2005.Invited outside participant, UCI Humanities Center faculty seminar on Film Genre, September-December 1992.Visiting Writer, American Academy, Rome, 1991.Interviewed by Bill Moyers on his PBS series, A World of Ideas, 1990.Winner of Phi Kappa Phi Prize for best faculty book (The Frenzy of Renown), USC, 1987.Outstanding Books of the Year (The Frenzy of Renown), New York Times, 1986.Nominee for National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism (for The Frenzy of Renown),1987.Director, NEH Summer Seminar for Secondary School Teachers (visual and verbal narrative), 1986.Fellow, Rockefeller Foundation Study and Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy, April 1986.NEH Senior Research Fellowship, 1979.

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Director, NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers (character in film and literature), 1978.National Book Award Nominee in Arts and Letters (Jean Renoir), 1973.Guggenheim Fellowship, 1971-72.Visiting Fellow, Huntington Library, December-January, 1971-72.Chamberlain Fellowship (Columbia), 1971.ACLS grant-in-aid, 1971.

Member of the editorial boards of ELH, Film Quarterly, Huntington Library Quarterly, PostScript, Prose Studies, and formerly of PMLA, Raritan Review, and Zyzzyva. Humanities Editorial Board of the Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981-84; frequent reader of manuscripts for Oxford, Yale, Princeton, University of California, and other presses. Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Board member, Los Angeles Review of Books; Steering Committee chair, Sidney Harman Academy of Polymathic Studies; Member (and frequent Screening Committee and Program Committee member) of the Los Angeles Institute of the Humanities, Modern Language Association, Pen Center USA West (former Advisory Board and Awards Chair), American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, National Book Critics Circle, Academy of Literary Studies, Samuel Johnson Society of Southern California.

English Institute Supervisory Committee, 1981-84; Chair, 1983-84.MLA Program Committee, 1984-87. Executive Committee, MLA Film Division, 1984-89; chair, 1988-89.

Served on many NEH review panels in a variety of granting areas from individual to institutional, including curriculum development, publishing subventions, and program site inspection.

Member of the Usage Panel, American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 3rd edition, 4th edition, 5th edition, 6th edition.

Listed in Twentieth-Century Authors, Contemporary Authors, Who's Who in America and other general reference works.

Books:Haunted: On ghosts, witches, vampires, zombies, and other monsters of the natural and supernatural worlds. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016.

Trying to be Cool: Growing Up in the 1950s. Los Angeles: Asahina & Wallace, 2013.

The Hollywood Sign: Fantasy and Reality of An American Icon. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011.

On the Waterfront. British Film Institute Film Classics, London: Macmillan, 2005.

From Chivalry to Terrorism: War and the Changing Nature of Masculinity. New York: Knopf, 2003; paperback, 2005. Chinese edition, 2005; Spanish edition, 2008; Korean edition, 2011.

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Native Informant: Essays on Film, Fiction and Popular Culture. Oxford University Press, 1992. Second edition (paperback), Figueroa Press, 2008.

The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and Its History. Oxford University Press, 1986; paperback, 1987. Second edition (paperback) with a new Afterword, Vintage, 1997.

Section entitled “The Dream of Acceptability” reprinted in Stardom and Celebrity: A Reader, eds. Sean Redmond and Su Holmes. London: Sage, 2007.Section entitled "Photography & Fame" reprinted in Roots and Branches: Contemporary Essays by West Coast Writers, ed. Howard Junker. San Francisco: Mercury House, 1991.

The World in a Frame: What We See in Films. Doubleday, 1976 (paperback, 1977); Second edition (paperback), University of Chicago, 1984; Twenty-fifth anniversary edition, 2002.

Section entitled "Genre: The Conventions of Connection" reprinted in Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings, Gerald Mast and Marshall Cohen, eds. New York: Oxford, 1979 (second edition); 1985 (third edition); 1992 (fourth edition); 1999 (fifth edition); 2004 (sixth edition), 2009 (seventh edition).Section entitled "Acting: Stage v. Screen" also reprinted in the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh editions, as well as in Theater and Film: A Comparative Anthology, Robert Knopf , ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005.Section entitled "Truffaut, Godard, and the Genre Film as Self-Conscious Art" reprinted in Shoot the Piano Player, ed. Peter Brunette. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1993.

Jean Renoir: The World of his Films. Doubleday, 1972 (paperback, 1973; English edition, 1977); second edition, Columbia University Press, 1989.

Narrative Form in History and Fiction: Hume, Fielding, and Gibbon. Princeton, 1970; second edition (as The Plot of Time, Los Angeles: Figueroa Press, 2003).

Anthologies edited and co-edited:Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings (with Marshall Cohen), eighth edition. New York: Oxford, 2016.

Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings (with Marshall Cohen), seventh edition. New York: Oxford, 2009.

Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings (with Marshall Cohen), sixth edition. New York: Oxford, 2004.

Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings (with Marshall Cohen), fifth edition. New York: Oxford, 1998.

Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings (with Gerald Mast and Marshall Cohen), fourth edition. New York: Oxford, 1992.

Great Film Directors: A Critical Anthology (with Morris Dickstein). Oxford, 1979.

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Norman Mailer: A Collection of Critical Essays. Prentice-Hall, 1972.

Truffaut's Shoot the Piano Player: A Collection of Critical Essays. Prentice-Hall, 1972.Translations of seven essays and reviews about Truffaut's Shoot the Piano Player; reprinted in Shoot the Piano Player, ed. Peter Brunette. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1993.

Original Articles and Essays in Books and on Websites:“From Subjects to Citizens.” In War in the Gender Zone, ed. Drew Gilpin Faust. University of North Carolina Press, forthcoming.

“Acting and Impersonation,” February 22, 2015. https://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/acting-impersonation

“The Nature of War: A 10-Best List from Leo Braudy,” May 26, 2014. https://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/nature-war-10-best-list-leo-braudy-2

“Pete Seeger Was No Llewyn Davis,” February 2, 2014. http://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/pete-seeger-llewyn-davis and Los Angeles Review of Books The Magazine, Spring 2014.

“Crowd Control,” Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal, Winter 2013-14.

“The Highbrow Populist: George Plimpton on Film,” Los Angeles Review of Books, May 26, 2013. http://lareviewofbooks.org/article.php?id=1699&fulltext=1 “Photography Changes the Way We Represent Ourselves and See Others” (On Walt Whitman’s use of photography), In Marvin Heiferman, ed. Photography Changes Everything. New York: Aperture/Smithsonian, 2012.

“The Time of Our Lives” [on Christian Marclay’s The Clock], Los Angeles Review of Books, July 14, 2011. http://lareviewofbooks.org/post/7607784204/the-time-of-our-lives

“The Director, That Miserable Son of a Bitch”: Kazan, Viva Zapata! And the Problem of Authority.” In Kazan Revisited, ed. Lisa Dombrowski. Wesleyan, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2011.

“Secular Anointings: Fame, Celebrity, and Charisma in the First Century of Mass Culture.” In Constructing Charisma: Celebrity, Fame, and Power in Nineteenth-Century Europe, eds. Edward Berenson and Eva Giloi. New York: Berghahn, 2010.

“Cultures and Communities.” In A Companion to Los Angeles, eds. William Deverell and Gregory Hise. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.

Preface to E.F. Kitchen, Suburban Knights: A Return to the Middle Ages. Brooklyn: Powerhouse Books, 2010.

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"Leo Braudy's Favorite Moments of Horror vs. Terror in Film," The Book of Lists: Horror, eds. Amy Wallace, Del Howison, and Scott Bradley. HarperCollins, October 2008

“Photography Changes the Way We Represent Ourselves and See Others” (On Walt Whitman’s use of photography), Click! Photography Changes Everything, Smithsonian Institution, 2007. http://www.click.si.edu/Story.aspx?story=296

“War Literature,” International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities, Routledge, 2007.

"Dryden, Marvell and the Design of Political Poetry." In Enchanted Ground: Reimagining John Dryden. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, December, 2004.

“Entertainment or Propaganda?” In Warners’ War: Politics, Pop Culture & Propaganda in Wartime Hollywood, eds. Martin Kaplan and Johanna Blakley. Los Angeles: Norman Lear Center Press, 2004.

Leo Braudy and Robert P. Kolker, “An Interview with Robert Altman.” Film Voices: Interviews from Post Script, ed. Gerald Duchovnay. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004.

Leo Braudy and Mark Crispin Miller, “An Interview with Sydney Pollack.” Film Voices: Interviews from Post Script, ed. Gerald Duchovnay. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004.

"Horror," essay for Lexikon Populäre Kultur, ed. Hans-Otto Hűgel. Stuttgart: Metzler Verlag,. 2003

“Celebrity,” Encyclopedia of American Studies, 4 vols., ed. G. T. Kurian. New York: Grolier. 2001.

"Entertainment: Show Biz Turns Big Biz," in Century of Change: America in Pictures, 1900-2000, ed. Richard B. Stolley. Boston: Little, Brown, 2000.

"Jean Renoir," American National Biography, eds. John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, 24 vols. Oxford, 1999.

"The Genre of Nature," Refiguring American Film Genres, ed. Nick Browne. University of California Press, 1998.

"Afterword: Rethinking Remakes" to Play It Again, Sam: Retakes on Remakes, eds. Andrew Horton and Stuart Y. McDougal. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1998.

"Unturning the Century: The Missing Decade of the 1690s," Les Fins de Siécle: English Poetry in 1590, 1690, 1790, 1890, 1990, ed. Elaine Scarry. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. "Varieties of Literary Affection," The Profession of Eighteenth-Century Literature: Reflections on an Institution, ed. Leo Damrosch. University of Wisconsin Press, 1992.

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"Sequel," in The International Encyclopedia of Communications, ed. Erik Barnouw. Oxford, 1989.

"Genre and the Resurrection of the Past," Shadows of the Magic Lamp, ed. George E. Slusser and Eric S. Rabkin. Carbondale: University of Southern Illinois Press, 1985.

"Succeeding in Language," The State of the Language, eds. Leonard Michaels and Christopher Ricks. University of California, 1980.

"Realists, Naturalists, and Novelists of Manners," The Harvard Guide to Contemporary American Writing, ed. Daniel Hoffman, Harvard, 1979.

"Rossellini: From Open City to General della Rovere," Great Film Directors: A Critical Anthology, eds. Leo Braudy and Morris Dickstein, Oxford, 1979.

"Penetration and Impenetrability in Clarissa," in New Approaches to Eighteenth-Century Literature, ed. Phillip Harth. Columbia, 1974 (English Institute Essays).

Reprinted in Modern Essays on Eighteenth-Century Literature, ed. Leopold Damrosch, jr. New York: Oxford, 1988.

Interviews:

“The Frenzy of Fame” (Interview with Leo Braudy), Zan Boag, New Philosopher, November 2015.

“ISIS propaganda; What is a public intellectual?” LARB Radio Hour, March 5, 2015. https://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/radio-hour-isis-propaganda-public-intellectual

“Oscar-worthy Acting and Literary Tourism,” LARB Radio Hour, February 26, 2015.. https://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/radio-hour-oscar-worthy-acting-literary-tourism

“An Interview with Leo Braudy,” Jennifer L. Geddes, Celebrity Culture issue, The Hedgehog Review, 2005.

"An Interview with Leo Braudy," Bill Moyers, A World of Ideas II. New York: Doubleday, 1990.

Articles and Essays in periodicals:“Leo Braudy on books about Hollywood,” The Wall Street Journal, May 5-6, 2012.

“Educating a Leader” (books recommended to Obama and Romney), Los Angeles Times, August 19, 2012. “Lots of History—if you look,” Los Angeles Times, April 22, 2012.

“Knowing the Performer from the Performance: Fame, Celebrity, and Literary Studies,” PMLA, October, 2011. Special issue: Celebrity, Notoriety, Fame.

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“Afterword,” South Central Review, Fall 2011, Special issue: Re-Framing Renoir.

“Near Dark: An Appreciation,” Film Quarterly, 64, 2 (Winter 2010).

“Whose Country?” [No Country for Old Men], Film Quarterly, 61, 4 (June 2008). “Eastwood’s WWII Diptych” [Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima], Film Quarterly, 60, 4 (Summer 2007).

“Trading 007 for Jack Bauer,” Los Angeles Times, September 10, 2006.

“An Army of One?” Compass (Kennedy School of Government), Spring 2004, 20-22. Reprinted in Military Leadership: In Pursuit of Excellence, fifth edition, ed. Robert L. Taylor and William E. Rosenbach. Cambridge, MA: Westview Books, 2005.

“Literature of War: Missing in Action,” Los Angeles Times, March 8, 2004, B11.

“Do You Wanna Dance Under the Moonlight?” Michigan Quarterly Review, Spring 2003.

“A Sense of Place,” Los Angeles Times. October 2002.

"Doing Public Pedagogy: Speaking Outside the Walls," Profession 1999.

"Fame: Why Are We So Fascinated by Famous People?" Swarthmore College Bulletin, September 1998.

"Renoir at Home: Interview with Jean Renoir," Film Quarterly (Fall 1996).

"`No Body's Perfect': Method Acting and 50s Culture," Michigan Quarterly Review (Winter 1996).Reprinted in The Movies: Texts, Receptions, Exposures, eds. Laurence Goldstein and Ira Konigsberg. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996.

"The Auteur Who Coined the Word" [on Jean Renoir], Los Angeles Times, July 15, 1994.

"Ceremonies of Innocence," Raritan Review, Spring 1994.

"Remembering Masculinity: Premature Ejaculation Poetry of the Seventeenth Century," Michigan Quarterly Review, Winter 1994.

"An Operatic Heroine for Our Time" (on the Marilyn opera), New York Times, September 20, 1993, 2, 45.

Reprinted in the International Herald Tribune and, in a revised form, in the London Sunday Express, September 27.

"In My Fifties" (memoir), Michigan Quarterly Review, Fall 1993.

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Reprinted in The Male Body: Features, Destinies, Exposures, ed. Laurence Goldstein. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994).

"A 'Dynasty' Series Set in Blah Beverly Hills," Newsday, October 27, 1991.

"Satire into Myth” [on Thelma and Louise], Film Quarterly, 45, 2 (Winter 1991-92), 28-29.Reprinted in Film Quarterly: Forty Years--A Selection, eds. Brian Henderson and Ann Martin. Berkeley: University of California Press, Spring, 1999.

"Democracy and the Humanities," inside english (journal of the English Council of California Two-Year Colleges), May 1991.

"In the Arts, Tomorrow Begins with Yesterday," New York Times, July 1, 1990, Section 2: 1, 16-17.

"What Really Happened at Little Bighorn?" Travel Holiday, April 1990.

"A Sicilian Odyssey," Travel Holiday, February 1990.Reprinted as "Sicilian Mozaic" in The Travel Review, January/February 1991.

"California Criticism: From Tweed Jacket to Wet-Suit," London Times Literary Supplement, December 15-21, 1989.

"Academic Subtitles," Harper's, July 1989.

"Renewing the Edge," Zyzzyva, 5(Summer 1989).Reprinted in in Roots and Branches: Contemporary Essays by West Coast Writers, ed. Howard Junker. San Francisco: Mercury House, 1991.

"Hollywood's Grand Old Getaway [The San Ysidro Ranch]," Condé Nast Traveler, April, 1989.

"The Chaos Theory of the MLA," London Times Literary Supplement, January 13-19, 1989.

"The Minutiae of Fame," LA Weekly, February 10-16, 1989.

"The Target of Their Desire," Los Angeles Times Magazine, July 10, 1988.

"Oh, Oscar, You're Making Us Blush," Los Angeles Times Magazine, April 10, 1988.

"Individual Career versus Professional Lockstep: Problems of the Faculty Reward System," ADE Bulletin, Spring 1988.

"Forerunner of the New" [on David Hockney], Life, February 1988.

"L.A. a la Hockney," KCET Magazine, February 1988.

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"The Sacraments of Genre," Film Quarterly, Spring, 1986.Reprinted in Film Quarterly: Forty Years--A Selection, eds. Brian Henderson and Ann Martin. Berkeley: University of California Press, Spring, 1999.

"Framing the Innocent Eye: 42nd Street and Persona," Michigan Quarterly Review, Winter, 1983.

"The Double Detachment of Ernst Lubitsch," MLN, Winter, 1983.

"Popular Culture and Personal Time," Yale Review, Summer 1982.

"Providence, Paranoia, and the Novel," ELH, 48(1981).

"Jesus and the Publicity of Inner Worth." Raritan Review, Winter, 1981.

"The Crisis in Film Book Publishing," American Film, January-February, 1981.

"A Genealogy of Mind" (on Susan Sontag), New Republic, November, 1980.

"Edward Gibbon and `The Privilege of Fiction,'" Prose Studies, September, 1980.

"Recent American Movies"(with Michael Wood), New York Arts Journal, April, 1979.

"Recent Work in the Restoration and Eighteenth Century," Studies in English Literature, Fall, 1977.

"Film Acting: Problems and Proposals," Quarterly Review of Film Studies, February, 1976.

"The Rise of the Auteur," London Times Literary Supplement, November 11, 1975.

"The Form of the Sentimental Novel," Novel, Fall, 1973.Reprinted in The Eighteenth Century Novel: Smollett to Austen. London: Longman's Critical Readings, 1998.

"Blue Tango," Partisan Review, Fall, 1973.

"Daniel Defoe and the Anxieties of Autobiography," Genre, March, 1973.

"Writing About Film," in Writing About Literature, Scott-Foresman, 1973.

"Leaving the Game: Renoir in the Thirties," Columbia Forum, Winter, 1971 (excerpt from book).

"The Difficulties of Little Big Man, Film Quarterly, Fall, 1971.

"Movie Mythographer" (on three books by Parker Tyler), New York Times Book Review, August 15, 1971.

"Talking About Movies," Yale Review, Winter, 1970.

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"Fanny Hill and Materialism," Eighteenth-Century Studies, Fall, 1970.

"Lexicography and Biography in the Preface to Johnson's Dictionary," Studies in English Literature, Summer, 1970.

"Zola on Film: The Ambiguities of Naturalism," Yale French Studies, June 1969.

"Newsreel: A Report," Film Quarterly, Winter, 1968.Reprinted as "On Two Fronts" in John Stuart Katz, ed. Perspectives on the Study of Film, Boston: Little-Brown, 1971.)

"Hitchcock, Truffaut, and the Irresponsible Audience," Film Quarterly, Summer, 1968.Reprinted in Albert J. LaValley, ed. Focus on Hitchcock. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1969.)

"Advertisements for a Dwarf Alter-ego," The New Journal, May, 1968.

"Truth" (1967 New York Film Festival), The New Journal, October, 1967.

DVD Commentaries:James Stewart/Robert Mitchum: The Two Faces of America (2017)

Star Wars (boxed edition), A Face in the Crowd, The Dirty Dozen, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Twelve O’Clock High, Von Ryan’s Express, Superman (boxed edition), The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (boxed edition), Expendables 2, On the Waterfront (Criterion edition), The Bling Ring.

Legal Consultations (selected):Re: Compton v. Riley & Reiner et al.Lawyer: Christopher L. Wong, Waxler Carner Brodsky LLPProperty: film Pearl Harbor

Dannon G. Green, Marc Alexander v. MGM Studios, Tracey E. Edmonds, et al.Lawyers: Richard L. Charnley, Tomas A BurgosProperty: film Who’s Your Caddy?

Re: Marvin Rosenblum, individually and on behalf of the Estate of George Orwell and Rosenblum Productions, Inc., Plaintiffs, v. Orwell Productions, Inc., and Viacom, Inc., formerly known as CBS Corporation and CBS Broadcasting, Inc. Defendants.Property” TV show “Big Brother”

Patrick Burke v. Interscope, et al.Lawyers: Stanley H. Handman, Esq., Florence T. Sinay, Esq.Property: feature film The Air Up There

Friedman, et al. adv. Cafone

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Lawyer: Robert H. Rotstein, Esq., Rosenfeld, Meyer & SusmanProperty: feature film Cadillac Man

Lawyer: Robert Thau, Esq., Rosenfeld, Meyer & SusmanProperty: script Shakespeare in Love

Giardino v. NBC, et al.Lawyer: Maren Christensen, Esq., Rosenfeld, Meyer & SusmanProperty: TV show "My Two Dads"

Television Consulting:Technical Advisor, “Class of ’96,” 1992-93.

Reviews:The Bullet’s Song by William Pfaff, Los Angeles Times, November 28, 2004.

Violence in America, eds. Ronald Gottesman and Richard Maxwell Brown, 3 vols. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999. Film Quarterly. 54 (Fall 2000).

Nuclear Movies: A Critical Analysis and Filmography of International Feature Length Films Dealing with Experimentation, Aliens, Terrorism, Holocaust, and Other Disaster Scenarios by Mick Broderick. Biblical Epics: Sacred Narrative in the Hollywood Cinema by Bruce Babington and Peter William Evans. Film Quarterly, Fall 1995.

Film: An International History of the Medium by Robert Sklar, Film Quarterly, Spring 1995.

Home Fires: An Intimate Portrait of One Middle-Class Family in Postwar America by Donald Katz, Los Angeles Times Book Review, July 5, 1992.

Custer's Last Campaign: Mitch Boyer and the Little Bighorn Reconstructed by John S. Gray. Los Angeles Times Book Review, May 26, 1991.

Alexander Pope by Maynard Mack, The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography for 1985, n. s. 11, ed. Jim Springer Borck. New York: AMS Press, 1990, VI: 624-625.

Being Red by Howard Fast. Los Angeles Times Book Review, December 9, 1990.

Behind the Mask of Innocence by Kevin Brownlow, Newsday, November 25, 1990.

Directed by Vincente Minnelli by Stephen Harvey. New York Times Book Review, March 4, 1990.

Debutante: The Story of Brenda Frazier by Gioia Diliberto. New York Times Book Review, August 23, 1987.

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Clarendon and the Rhetoric of Historical Form by Martine Watson Brownley. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Winter, 1986.

Exporting Entertainment: America in the World Film Market, 1907-34 by Kristin Thompson, and The Hollywood Studio System by Douglas Gomery, American Film, May 1986.

Suspects by David Thomson. California Magazine. May, 1985.

Go Slowly, Come Back Quickly by David Niven. Book World, November 22, 198l.

"In the Criminal Style," review of Crime Movies: An Illustrated History by Carlos Clarens and Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style by Alain Silver and Elizabeth Ward. American Film, July-August, 1980.

"Grime on the Glitter: Hollywood and McCarthyism," review of The Inquisition in Hollywood by Larry Ceplair and Steven Englund, Creative Differences by David Talbot and Barbara Zheutlin, and Heyday by Dore Schary, Book World, April 6, 1980.

The Anatomy of Historical Knowledge by Maurice Mandelbaum, Modern Language Notes, Spring, 1979.

The War, The West, and the Wilderness by Kevin Brownlow, NYTBR, February 25, 1979.

Sixguns and Society by Will Wright, TLS, June 25, 1976.

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice, NYTBR, September 26, 1975.Reprinted in Books of the Century: A Hundred Years of Authors, Ideas and Literature, ed. Charles McGrath. New York: Times Books, 1998.

We Are Your Sons by Robert and Michael Meeropol, NYTBR, May 25, 1975.

Visits to Bedlam by Max Byrd and Nightmares and Hobbyhorses by Michael DePorte, Yale Review, Summer, 1975.

Johnson's Tragic Vision by Leopold Damrosch, ELN, Summer, 1975.

Number and Pattern in the Eighteenth-Century Novel by Douglas Brooks and The Choice of Life by Carey McIntosh, YR, Fall, 1974.

The English Essays of Edward Gibbon edited by Patricia A. Craddock, Studies in Burke, Winter, 1976.

Five books about film actors, NYTBR, September 22, 1974.

Winter Kills by Richard Condon, NYTBR, April 14, 1974.

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Stargazer by Stephen Koch, NYTBR, October 7, 1973.

Milton's Paradise Lost by John Collier, NYTBR, August 5, 1973.

Regiment of Women by Thomas Berger, NYTBR, May 13, 1973.

Wild Excursions by David Thomson and The Romantic Novel in England by Robert Kiely, NYTBR, April 1, 1973.

G. by John Berger, NYTBR, September 10, 1972.

The World Viewed by Stanley Cavell, FQ, Summer, 1972.

What is Cinema? (volume II) by André Bazin, NYTBR, February 13, 1972.

Movies into Film by John Simon and Twenty-four Times a Second by William S. Pechter, NYTBR, March 21, 1971.

The Created Self by John Preston, Philological Quarterly, July, 1971.

Maidstone by Norman Mailer, NYTBR, December 19, 1971.

Catch-22 directed by Mike Nichols, On Film, Fall, 1970.

The Red-Hot Vacuum by Theodore Solataroff, NYTBR, November 22, 1970.

Literature and Film by Robert Richardson, YR, Summer, 1970.

Coogan's Bluff directed by Don Siegel, FQ, Fall, 1969.

The Thomas Crown Affair directed by Norman Jewison, FQ, Summer, 1969.

The World of the Thriller by Ralph Harper, Commentary, August, 1969.

Rachel, Rachel directed by Paul Newman, FQ, Winter, 1968.

What is Cinema? (volume I) by André Bazin, YR, Autumn, 1968.

Films and Feelings by Raymond Durgnat, YR, Autumn, 1968.

Shakespeare's History Plays, edited by Eugene M. Waith, New Haven Register, March, 1968.

Edward Gibbon the Historian by Joseph Ward Swain, YR, Summer, 1967.

Ford Madox Ford by Carol Ohmann, Commonweal, September 4, 1964.

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Lectures, Panels, Conferences, and Interviews (partial list):

Panelist, “Whose Life Is It Anyway? Approaches to Writing Memoir,” Los Angeles Times Book Festival, April 18, 2015; Panelist, “Nonfiction: the Art of the Personal Story,” Los Angeles Times Book Festival, April 12, 2014; panelist, “Degrees of Fictionality: Representing "Truth" Across Genres,” Los Angeles Times Book Festival, April 12, 2014; panelist, “Whose Life is it Anyway? Approaches to Writing the Memoir,” University of Southern California, April 3, 2014; Panelist, Los Angeles Times Book Festival, 2013; Presenter, History Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Festival, April 2012; Keynote Speech, (Dis)junctions Conference on Narrative, UC Riverside, April 2012; “How a Commercial Billboard Became the Worldwide Symbol of the Movie Business,” Baker-Nord Humanities Center, Case Western Reserve University, March 2012; Interviewee (by Kevin Roderick), Aloud, Los Angeles Public Library, July 21, 2011; Panelist, “Los Angeles: Myth and Memory” and “Hollywood Icons,” Los Angeles Times Book Festival, May 2011; Panelist, “Biography: Hollywood Legends,” Los Angeles Times Book Festival, April 2010; Speaker, “The Hollywood Sign as Brand and Icon,” Brandspace Seminar, USC Annenberg School of Communications, April 2010; Panelist, “The Arts of Being: Telling Life Stories Now,” Northeastern University, Boston, April 21, 2010; Respondent, “Cinema and Ecology I: Theoretical Perspectives,” SCMS, March 2010; Interviewer, “A Conversation with Peter Biskind,” Writers Bloc, November 2009; Keynote address, Respondent to James Fisher, “’On the Waterfront’: The Great American Catholic Movie,” USC Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies, September 2008; "Secular Anointings: Fame, Celebrity, and Charisma in the First Century of Mass Culture," NYU/Rutgers-Newark Conference, Constructing Charisma: Fame, Celebrity and Power in 19th Century Europe, April 2007; Moderator,"Hollywood Left and Right: Anti-Fascism, Anti-Communism and Anti-Semitism before World War II," USC Casden Institute, March 2007; Moderator,"Profiles in Terror," Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, April 2007; Point of View lecturer, “Fame and Jean-Louis David,” Getty Museum, March 2005; Moderator, “The Future of the American Military,” Los Angeles Times Book Festival, April 2005; Panelist, “Directors under Fire: Filmmaking in the Age of Terrorism,” Director’s Guild of America, May 2005; Keynote Speaker, “Science Fictions: The Shadows of the Future,” Los Angeles Community College, May 2005; Interviewer, “A Conversation with E.L. Doctorow,” Writers Bloc, Skirball Museum, May 2004; Moderator, “Politics and Entertainment: How the Worlds of Celebrity and Entertainment Influence the Political Landscape,” Yale in California Alumni Gala, Los Angeles, May 2004; Respondent, “The Circumstances of Production: Why, When, and Where,” USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute Conference: The Early Modern Travel Narrative: Production and Consumption, April 2004; Panelist, “The Seduction of War,” Los Angeles Times Book Festival, April 2004; “From Chivalry to Terrorism,” Jonathan Club, February 2004, “From Chivalry to Terrorism,” Claremont Graduate University, January 2004; Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities, April 2003 (“Unfortunately Very Timely”), Panelist, “Young and Younger: Age, Image, and the Movies" January 2004, Skirball Cultural Center, Panelist, “Reporting on Celebrities: The Ethics of News Coverage,” Annenberg/Poynter Institute, January 2004, Prologue Society, October 2002 (“Fame and Forgetting”), Aspen Film Festival/Aspen Institute, June 2002 ("Film and Ideas: The Hero), Dryden Conference, Clark Library, October 2000 ("Dryden, Marvell and the Design of Political Poetry"), Art Audience Response Conference, SUNY-New Paltz (1999, "Structures of Immediacy: Notes Toward a History of the Audience," Keynote Speech), SUNY-Buffalo (1999, "War and Masculinity: Notes on an Assumption," MLA Presidential Forum (1998."Doing Public Pedagogy: Making The Class of '96 and Other Adventures in the TV Trade"),

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Swarthmore College Alumni Collection (1998, "Fame and Our Fascination With It"), Los Angeles Council for the Humanities (1998, "Eros and Mars: War and Masculinity"), Los Angeles County Museum conference, "Made in California, 1900-2000," (1997, "California as the Crucible of Imaginative Space"), Chicago Art Institute (1997, "Fame in a Frame: Irving Penn's Photographs and the History of Celebrity Portraiture"), Emeriti College, USC (1996, "Thoughts on War and Masculinity"), Thematic Option Evening Event, USC (1997, "Truth Without Certainty: Problems of Interpretation in a Postmodern Age"), Keynote Speech, International Congress of Distinguished Awards (1997, "The Nature of Fame"), MIT Conference on The Future of Media Studies (1995, "Humanism and its Discontents: Film and the Revision of Literary Studies"), Humanities West Conference on The Light of Provence: Cézanne, Van Gogh and Matisse (1995, "Nostalgia for the Earth: Pagnol, Renoir, and the Image of Provence in Films"), Huntington Library Conference on T. E. Lawrence (1995, "Thirsting for Anonymity: Fame from Keats to Lawrence," keynote speech), MLA (1992, respondent to panel on the movie remake), English Institute (1992, "Unturning the Century: The Missing Decade of the 1690s"), Clark Library (1992, Commentator, Workshop on Grammar and Inscribing Culture), U C Berkeley Department of Rhetoric (1992, "'No Body's Perfect': Method Acting and 50s Culture"), MLA (1991, Respondent to panel on Method Acting), Keynote Speaker, Los Angeles Community College, District 5, Staff Development Conference (1990, "Democracy and the Humanities"), Richland College, Dallas, Texas Literary Festival ("Fame and Character," 1990), MIT Communications Forum ("Politics of Performance," 1989), Association of Departments of English conference ("Individual Career versus Professional Lockstep: Problems of the Faculty Reward System," 1987), Los Angeles Unified School District, Year of the Humanities Conference for Principals and heads of English Departments ("Democracy and the Humanities," 1987), MLA (California criticism, 1987), Wayne State University (Turner Memorial lecture on film, 1985), MLA Division on Early Eighteenth-century Literature (Marvell and Dryden, 1984), Mid-western Eighteenth-century Society (Keynote Address on Johnson, Boswell, and Franklin, 1984), University of Illinois (Genius and Neglect, 1984), USC (Brady, Barnum, and Lincoln, 1984), Yale (Mellon Visiting Lecturer, 1984), Davis(fame and Romanticism, 1984), Irvine (Conference on Self in Society, 1984), USC (fame and neglect, 1983), Astoria Museum (Conference on Humanities and the Moving Image, 1983), National Gallery of Art (organized series of six films by Jean Renoir, lectured, and wrote program notes, 1983), Centro de Semiotica y Linguistica, Urbino, Italy (Conference on Italian and Italo-American Filmmakers; respondent in Conference on Seriality and Repetition in Film and Television, 1983), Yale (film and fictional narrative, 1983), University of Utah (Johnson, Boswell, and fame; colloquium on film genre, 1983), Irvine (popular culture and personal time, 1982), California Institute of Technology (same); Riverside (horror and science-fiction film, 1982), Yale (Whitney Humanities Center Conference on Culture, 1981), Buffalo (Conference on European Directors in America, 1981), MLA (session on Film in the 1980s, 1981), Princeton (musicals and the nature of film, 1981), Virginia Polytechnic Institute (Conference on art within art, 1980), Columbia (films within films, 1981), University of Pennsylvania (history of fame, 1980), MLA (Renaissance artists, 1979), Yale (character in fiction and film, 1979), Museum of Modern Art (the movie musical, 1979), Florence, Italy (Renoir's actresses, 1979), New York University (film and sociology, 1979), Baltimore Museum of Art (Jean Renoir, Eric Rohmer, Marcel Carné, 1977-78), Johns Hopkins University (authorship and authority, 1977), USC (self-reflexiveness in literature, 1977), Vassar (culture and heroism, 1976),University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (Edward Gibbon, 1976), MLA ("Satire and the Politics of Personality, 1975), International Conference on the Enlightenment (decline of providence, New Haven, 1975), CUNY (Conference on Film Criticism, 1975), Santa Barbara (film

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and popular culture, 1975), Wesleyan (death in the eighteenth century, 1975), Northwestern (Shakespeare on film, 1975), American Historical Association (film and culture in the 1950s, Rochester (affective literature and criticism, 1974), University of Illinois (film theory, 1974), University of Chicago (Zabel lecture on film, 1974), Wesleyan (popular culture, 1974), The English Institute (Richardson's Clarissa, 1973), University of Michigan (same), Rhode Island College (film theory, 1974), SUNY-New Paltz (Ingmar Bergman, 1974), Northwestern (film theory, 1973), Yale (film theory, 1972), MLA (eighteenth-century fiction, 1972), Boston University (film theory, 1972), Boston College of Art (Jean Renoir, 1972), Fairfield University (film theory, 1972), Michigan State (visiting lecturer in eighteenth-century literature, 1972), MLA (character in film and fiction, 1971), Northeast MLA (Fielding and Sterne, 1970), Yale (film theory, 1969).

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