Dudley Andrew

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James Dudley Andrew (born July 28, 1945) [1] [2] is an American film theorist. He is R. Selden Rose Professor of Film and Comparative Literature at Yale University, where he has taught since the year 2000. Before moving to Yale, he taught for thirty years at the University of Iowa. Andrew has been called, on the occasion of one of his invited lecture series, "one of the most influential scholars in the areas of theory, history and criticism". [3] He particularly specializes in world cinema, film theory and aesthetics, and French cinema. He has also written on Japanese cinema, especially the work of Kenji Mizoguchi. He has been given a Guggenheim Fellowship [4] and was named an Officier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2006. [1] In 2011, he received the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Distinguished Career Achievement Award. [5] Also he has been honored in some countries where his works has been translated and used as textbook in the field. In December 2020, University of Tehran held a session in honor of Dudley Andrew with his presence as the keynote speaker. In this session Nadia Maftouni called Andrew a successful scholar in forming a whole new academic field. [6] Dudley Andrew is currently chair of the Department of Comparative Literature at Yale. [7]

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  1. 1 2 "Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter A" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved April 18, 2011.
  2. "Andrew, Dudley, 1945-". Library of Congress Authorities. Retrieved April 15, 2012.
  3. "Summer Institute in Film launches with lectures by film theorist Dudley Andrew". Y-File. May 25, 2009. Retrieved December 21, 2009.
  4. "Dudley Andrew". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Archived from the original on June 22, 2011. Retrieved January 25, 2010.
  5. "Distinguished Career Achievement Award". Society for Cinema and Media Studies.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
  6. Dudley Andrew, UT honors Dudley Andrew
  7. Dudley Andrew Yale Film Studies Faculty