Native informant : essays on film, fiction, and popular culture
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
Fictional Work
x, 304 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780195052749, 0195052749
21300695
Popular Culture and Personal Time
Succeeding in Language
Being a Teacher
The Rise of the Auteur
Hitchcock, Truffaut, and the Irresponsible Audience
Maidstone: A Mystery by Norman Mailer
Stargazer by Stephen Koch [on Andy Warhol]
The Double Detachment of Ernst Lubitsch
Fanny Hill and materialism
Zola on Film: The Ambiguities of Naturalism
Lexicography and biography in the Preface to Johnson's Dictionary
Daniel Defoe and the Anxieties of Autobiography
A Genealogy of Mind [on Susan Sontag]
Adulation and Revenge
Providence, Paranoia, and the Novel
Penetration and Impenetrability in Clarissa. The Form of the Sentimental Novel
Edward Gibbon and "The Privilege of Fiction"
Mad Pursuit
Framing the Innocent Eye: 42nd Street and Persona
Genre and the Resurrection of the Past
Newsreel: A Report
In the Criminal Style
Western Approaches
The Sacraments of Genre: Coppola, DePalma, Scorsese
G. by John Berger
Grime on the Glitter: Hollywood and McCarthyism
We Are Your Sons by Michael and Robert Meeropol
Regiment of Women by Thomas Berger
Winter Kills by Richard Condon
The Difficulties of Little Big Man
Democracy and the Humanities
California Criticism: From Tweed Jacket to Wet Suit