# Dudley Andrew [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dudley_Andrew) ## Description American film theorist and historian, long a leading synthesizer and critic of film theory as a field, with particular expertise in French cinema, André Bazin, and world/comparative cinema; author of *The Major Film Theories* and *Concepts in Film Theory*, two of the most widely used introductions to the discipline. ## Key Tags #theorist #critic #academic ## Essential Works - *The Major Film Theories: An Introduction*. Oxford University Press, 1976. - widely used survey of classical film theory (Münsterberg, Arnheim, Eisenstein, Bazin, Kracauer) - *Concepts in Film Theory*. Oxford University Press, 1984. - organizes film theory by concept (adaptation, realism, genre, authorship) rather than by theorist - *André Bazin*. Oxford University Press, 1978. - critical biography of the influential French film critic and theorist ## Details A central figure in establishing film theory as a coherent academic field in the American university, both through his own synthesizing textbooks and through decades of translation, editing, and advocacy for French and world cinema scholarship; long associated with Yale University, where he holds the R. Selden Rose chair in Film and Comparative Literature. ### Concepts and Theories %% none yet %% ### Creative and Technical Practices %% none yet %% ### Collaborators %% none yet %% ### Institutional Affiliations and Associated Movements - Yale University - R. Selden Rose Professor of Film and Comparative Literature ## References ### Primary Sources Bibliography Andrew, Dudley. *The Major Film Theories: An Introduction*. Oxford University Press, 1976. Andrew, Dudley. *Concepts in Film Theory*. Oxford University Press, 1984. ### Secondary Sources Bibliography %% none yet %%