Screenwriters Association
of Santa Barbara
Presents
Film Critic & Author
Leo Braudy
Thursday, July 14, 7 pm
Brooks Institute
27 East Cota Street, Room C-3
Downtown Santa Barbara
(805) 617-4503
FREE and open to everyone!
Leo Braudy is among America’s leading cultural historians and film critics. Currently University Professor and Leo S. Bing Chair in English and American Literature at the University of Southern California, he teaches Restoration literature and history, American culture after World War Two, popular culture and critical theory, including the histories of visual style and film genres. His work appears in journals such as American Film, Film Quarterly, Genre, Novel, Partisan Review, and Prose Studies—to name a few.
His book Jean Renoir: The World of His Films was a finalist for the National Book Award. The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and Its History was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Harper’s. His book From Chivalry to Terrorism, was named Best of the Best by the Los Angeles Times and a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times.
His most recent book is The Hollywood Sign: Fantasy and Reality of an American Icon (New Haven: Yale university Press, 2011).
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