Dudley Andrew

James Dudley Andrew (born July 28, 1945)^[1][2] is an American film theorist. He is R. Selden Rose Professor Emeritus 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 awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship^[4] and was named a Commandeur in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture, its highest distinction. In 2006, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.^[1] In 2011, he received the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Distinguished Career Achievement Award.^[5] Dudley Andrew studied English and Philosophy, then learned filmmaking before getting in on the ground floor just as Film Studies was taking off in the USA. After more than 50 years as a teacher and scholar, he has directed the dissertations of many of today’s leaders in Film studies, and his books have been widely translated, including into French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, Arabic, Farsi, Turkish, Serbo-Croatian, and Polish.^[6]