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ALOUD AT THE CENTRAL LIBRARY PRESENTS
LEO BRAUDY: THE HOLLYWOOD SIGN
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Kevin Roderick leads a conversation with Leo Braudy about the history of the Hollywood sign. Follow the link above to listen to the .mp3 podcast on the LAPL website.
The March 13, 2011 edition of The Wall Street Journal‘s “Speakeasy” column features an interview by Alexandra Cheney in which Leo Braudy discusses The Hollywood Sign: Fantasy and Reality of an American Icon.
Susan Andrews of the USC College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences interviewed Leo about his forthcoming book on the Hollywood sign. The video can be found below, as well as a link to the full text of the article.
Commanding, evocative and unmistakable. With nine white steel and concrete letters standing 30 feet wide and 45 feet tall, the Hollywood Sign is one of the most recognized symbols in the world.
The sign is also the subject of Leo Braudy’s twelfth book, The Hollywood Sign: Fantasy and Reality of an American Icon, which will appear in 2011 as one in a series of books about American icons to be published by Yale University Press. In the book, Braudy discusses the complex history of the Hollywood Sign and its interaction with the history of Hollywood, as a real and fantasized place.
A teacher, cultural theorist, film critic, and expert on 17th-century literature, Braudy is fascinated most by the interaction of things that seem disparate or far apart from each other. “In my mind, the seemingly disconnected fields nurture and feed upon one another, and it’s less about the individual parts.”
Read the rest of the article here.
Recent Interviews:
“The Geography of Buzz: Art, Culture and the Social Milieu in Los Angeles and New York,” April 15, 2009– Commentator and chair of a discussion of the correlation between geography and media buzz. You can read about the event at the University of Southern California’s news website.
“War and Masculinity: Forever Entwined?”
April 14, 2009– Interview on The Pendulum Effect podcast, hosted by Justin Trottier.
ALOUD AT CENTRAL LIBRARY
Tuesday, May 6, 2008, 7 pm
A conversation with screenwriter Millard Kaufman, whose debut novel, Bowl of Cherries,was published last year by McSweeney’s. The .mp3 podcast is available at the link above.
In “An Interview with Leo Braudy,” published in The Hedgehog Review‘s Celebrity Culture issue (Spring 2005), Jennifer L. Geddes discusses with Leo Braudy the current incarnation of the phenomenon of fame and celebrity. Follow the link to read the article.
Leo Braudy discusses From Chivalry to Terrorism: War and the Changing Nature of Masculinity with host Connie Martinson on Connie Martinson Talks Books, June 15, 2005. Follow the link above or click on the image to view the video provided by Claremont Colleges Digital Library.
