Archive for the 'Announcements' Category

Leo Braudy Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Wednesday, April 21st, 2010

Leo Braudy and Scott Soames have just been named to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. USC’s College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences covered the story:
Top Fellowships for Braudy and Soames
University Professor Leo Braudy and philosophy professor Scott Soames have been named fellows of the 230-year-old American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of [...]

Film Theory and Criticism, 7th Edition

Sunday, May 10th, 2009

New Edition:

The 7th edition of Film Theory and Criticism has just been released by Oxford University Press and is available for purchase from Amazon.
The new edition features expanded introductions and a new section on “Digitization and Globalization,” which incorporates essays on recent developments in technology and world cinema.

Native Informant Back in Print

Friday, May 1st, 2009

Back in print:
Figueroa Press has republished Native Informant: Essays on Film, Fiction, and Popular Culture in its scholarly reprints series. The press also reissued The Plot of Time: Narrative Form in Hume, Fielding, and Gibbon with a new forward by Hayden White in 2003. Both books can be ordered through their website, or at Amazon.com.

Recent & Forthcoming Projects

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

“Walt Whitman and Photography,” for “click! photography changes everything,” a Smithsonian Photography Initiative (SPI) project, Marvin Heiferman, curator.
“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.
Preface to E.F. Kitchen, Suburban Knights: A Return to the Middle Ages. [...]