Norman A Collection of Critical Essays (20th Century Views)

Norman Mailer: A Collection of Critical Essays (20th Century Views)

BRAUDY, Leo.

Literature & Fiction

PRENTICE/HALL

Focus On Shoot the Piano Player

Pearson Ptr

Focus on Shoot the piano player (Film focus)

The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and Its History

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Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Oxford University Press

What is fame? A name? A face? The "it" in "making it"? In this wide-ranging and ambitious book, Leo Braudy traces the evolving definition of fame from the time of Homer to the present. As Braudy points out, fame is far from just a 20th-century obsession: it has a history, and the twists and turns of that history have determined the terms by which we now understand the phenomenon. Beginning with the Homeric epics and exploits of Alexander the Great, and proceeding to our current idolatry of media figures, the book explains how the definition of fame depends on the political and social system in which it is found, the culture's concept of what a person is, and, of course, the media available for disseminating images. Over the past 2,500 years, fame has had a variety of meanings: from the Roman commitment to public action and the Christian belief that God is the ultimate audience; to the Renaissance idea of the heroic artist and 19th-century notions of posterity and the avant garde; to the idealization of the king and the view that movie stars are the consummate role models. Drawing on art, literature, political history, religion, and philosophy, The Frenzy of Renown offers a fascinating parade of personalities--Julius Caesar and Jesus, Charlemagne and Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson and Abraham Lincoln, Adolf Hitler and Marilyn Monroe--all of whom have changed the way everyone appears in the eyes of others.

Social Sciences

Native Informant is Leo Braudy's first book after his widely acclaimed and award-winning history of fame, The Frenzy of Renown. With a verve that breaks down the boundaries between film, literature, and popular culture, Braudy discusses writers and filmmakers such as Alfred Hitchcock, Daniel Defoe, Ernst Lubitsch, Emile Zola, Susan Sontag, and Richard Condon. His subjects include madness in the eighteenth century, the Hollywood blacklist, westerns, and pornography. Throughout this lively and insightful collection, his perspective is not that of the critic as a detached voice of professional authority but as a member of a particular culture--a native informant--whose gaze looks simultaneously inward and outward, subjective but self-aware. Like the wide-ranging Frenzy of Renown, Native Informant will appeal to specialist and interested reader alike.

Native Informant: Essays on Film, Fiction, and Popular Culture

Essays & Correspondence

The world in a frame: What we see in films

"An exciting, entertaining exploration of films. . . . [Braudy] attempts to understand rather than promulgate rules and categories, and somehow to keep the criteria of enjoyment in some meaningful connection with the criteria of judgment."—Robert Kirsch, Los Angeles Times

The World in a Frame: What We See in Films

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

University of Chicago Press

Now a classic, The World in a Frame covers the history of popular American films from the 1930s to the 1970s. Leo Braudy, one of America's leading film critics, gives an account of the histories of visual style and film genres, as ell as techniques of characterization—all in an evolving cultural context. This twenty-fifth anniversary edition includes a new preface addressing developments in film since 1976.

The World in a Frame: What We See in Films, 25th Anniversary Edition

Jean Renoir: The World of His Films

Arts & Photography

Performing Arts

Columbia Univ. Pr.

Hollywood's famous sign, constructed of massive white block letters set into a steep hillside, is an emblem of the movie capital it looms over and an international symbol of glamour and star power. To so many who see its image, the sign represents the earthly home of that otherwise ethereal world of fame, stardom, and celebrity--the goal of American and worldwide aspiration to be in the limelight, to be, like the Hollywood sign itself, instantly recognizable.
How an advertisement erected in 1923, touting the real estate development Hollywoodland, took on a life of its own is a story worthy of the entertainment world that is its focus. Leo Braudy traces the remarkable history of this distinctly American landmark, which has been saved over the years by a disparate group of fans and supporters, among them Alice Cooper and Hugh Hefner, who spearheaded its reconstruction in the 1970s. He also uses the sign's history to offer an intriguing look at the rise of the movie business from its earliest, silent days through the development of the studio system that helped define modern Hollywood. Mixing social history, urban studies, literature, and film, along with forays into such topics as the lure of Hollywood for utopian communities and the development of domestic architecture in Los Angeles, The Hollywood Sign is a fascinating account of how a temporary structure has become a permanent icon of American culture.

The Hollywood Sign: Fantasy and Reality of an American Icon (Icons of America)

Yale University Press

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