Leo Braudy

Expert on fame, celebrity and mass media.
  • USC University Professor
  • Holder of the Leo S. Bing Chair in English and American Literature
  • Professor of English, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
  • Holder of joint appointments in history and art history, USC Dornsife College; critical studies, USC School of Cinematic Arts
Office: (213) 740-3751

Expertise

  • history of fiction
  • 17th and 18th century British literature
  • mass media and pop culture
  • fame, celebrity
  • film history
  • genre movies (horror, Western, musical, etc.)
  • war and masculinity

Additional Information

  • Author, From Chivalry to Terrorism: War and the Changing Nature of Masculinity (2003), Native Informant: Essays on Film, Fiction and Popular Culture (1992), The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and Its History (1986), The World in a Frame: What We See in Films (1976), Jean Renoir: The World of His Films (1972) and Narrative Form in History and Fiction: Hume, Fielding and Gibbon (1970)
  • Author of essays and reviews in various publications, including Film Quarterly, New York Times, Book Review, Commentary and the New Republic.