Books & Appearances

books

APPEARANCES:

  • Moderator, “A History of Violence,” Los Angeles Times Book Festival, April 26, 2008.
  • Moderator, “Hollywood Goes to War: The Battle of San Pietro and The Memphis Belle”; Discussant,“Twelve O’Clock High: Literature into Film”; Real to Reel: World War II in Film, Documentaries & Newsreels, National World War II Museum, New Orleans, April 10-12, 2008.
  • Panelist/Discussant, Victor Burgin’s “The Little House,” MAK Center for Art and Architecture L.A. Schindler House, November 10, 2007.
  • Interviewer, Millard Kaufman, author of A Bowl of Cherries, Los Angeles Public Library Aloud series, May 6, 2008.
  • “Leo Braudy and David Thomson discuss Citizen Kane,” Moguls, Millionaires, & Movie Stars: Hollywood Between the Wars, 1920-1940, Huntington Library, May 31, 2008.

BOOKS:

  • On the Waterfront, British Film Institute Film Classics, London, 2005.
  • From Chivalry to Terrorism: War and the Changing Nature of Masculinity. New York: Knopf, 2003; paperback, 2005.
  • Native Informant: Essays on Film, Fiction and Popular Culture. Oxford University Press, 1992.
  • The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and Its History. Oxford University Press, 1986; paperback, 1987. Second edition (paperback) with a new afterword, Vintage, 1997.
  • 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.
  • 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), 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.
  • Norman Mailer: A Collection of Critical Essays. Prentice-Hall, 1972.
  • Truffaut’s Shoot the Piano Player: A Collection of Critical Essays. Prentice-Hall, 1972.