Dudley Andrew
James Dudley Andrew (born July 28, 1945) 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". 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 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. In 2011, he received the
Society for Cinema and Media Studies Distinguished Career Achievement Award. 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. Dudley Andrew is currently chair of the Department of Comparative Literature at Yale.
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