{"id":20166,"date":"2024-05-31T14:24:11","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T21:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/?p=20166"},"modified":"2024-06-04T17:29:42","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T00:29:42","slug":"leo-braudy-retires-after-four-decades-at-usc-dornsife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/leo-braudy-retires-after-four-decades-at-usc-dornsife\/","title":{"rendered":"English professor whose influential courses elevated film studies in the US retires after four decades at USC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n    \n                                          \n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--article-hero \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--article-hero\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n<div class=\"inner-wrapper\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/05\/braudy_retires_top-768x432.png\"\n          data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/05\/braudy_retires_top-1920x1080.png 1920w,https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/05\/braudy_retires_top-1280x720.png 1280w,https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/05\/braudy_retires_top-768x432.png 768w\"          data-sizes=\"(min-width:1200px) 75vw, (min-width:768px) 83vw, 100vw\"          class=\"lazyload\"\n        \n                  alt=\"A photo of Leo Braudy peering over the top of a pair of sunglasses.\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n  \n      <div class=\"image-caption\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  University Professor Emeritus Leo Braudy is widely recognized as a leading cultural historian and film critic. (Photos: Phil Channing.)\n\n\n<\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  \n  <div class=\"text-wrapper\">\n          <nav aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\" class=\"breadcrumbs\">\n        <ul>\n                      <li><a href=\"\/news\/stories\/\">News<\/a><\/li>\n                      <li><a href=\"\/news\/stories\/\/?category=faculty\">Faculty<\/a><\/li>\n                  <\/ul>\n      <\/nav>\n    \n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--page-title\">\n\n    \n  <h1>English professor whose influential courses elevated film studies in the US retires after four decades at USC<\/h1>\n\n\n<\/div>\n    \n          <div class=\"subtitle\">\n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  USC Dornsife\u2019s Leo Braudy helped pioneer the academic study of movies and popular culture.\n\n\n<\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    \n           <strong class=\"author-field\"><span >By<\/span><a href=\"mailto:communication@dornsife.usc.edu\">Tomas Weber<\/a><\/strong>\n    \n          <span 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scholars of 18th-century English literature do not spend large stretches of time probing the cultural significance of the Hollywood sign. Or dissecting the meaning and history of celebrity, or of terrorism. Or delving into our obsession with zombies and vampires.<\/p>\n<p>But then, most specialists in 18th-century literature are not Leo Braudy.<\/p>\n<p>Widely recognized as one of America\u2019s leading cultural historians and film critics, Braudy helped elevate cinema and popular culture into topics worthy of serious study.<\/p>\n<p>This month, the University Professor Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of English and Art History retired after 41 years at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>From his book analyzing the films of legendary director and screenwriter Jean Renoir \u2014 which was a finalist for the National Book Award \u2014 to his work on the history of fame, to his courses on film and popular culture, beloved by generations of undergraduates, Braudy helped open the curtain to film at a moment when university departments, by and large, were slow to recognize movies as legitimate works of art.<\/p>\n<h2>Teenage Leo Braudy falls in love with film<\/h2>\n<p>Born in Philadelphia in 1941, Braudy was struck with polio at the age of four. Long stretches of forced bedrest transformed him into a voracious reader. \u201cOne thing that came out of my illness was that I learned to read very early,\u201d says Braudy. \u201cAnd that sent me down a literary path, towards academia \u2014 although my father always wanted me to be a businessman.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Braudy whiled away his teenage years in soda shops and movie theatres. He and his friends strove to embody the evanescent quality of \u201ccoolness\u201d that was the aspiration of most style-conscious teens in the 1950s. It was a time that Braudy documented and \u2014 wearing his cultural historian hat \u2014 analyzed in his 2013 memoir, <em>Trying to Be Cool<\/em> (Asahina &amp; Wallace, 2013).<\/p>\n<p>But as teenage Braudy was perfecting his image, he was also absorbing as many moving pictures as he could watch.<\/p>\n<p>Films captured Braudy and shaped his understanding of stories. Later, as a young scholar, he would be fascinated by the relationship between historical narratives and fiction. But it was the cinema that first sparked his curiosity about what historical narratives share with invented stories.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy view of fiction and nonfiction was nurtured by the movies,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<h2>As a young scholar, Braudy dives into \u201cincoherent\u201d literature<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20167\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20167\" style=\"width: 406px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20167\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/05\/braudy_retires_instorya-406x550.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of Leo Braudy\" width=\"406\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/05\/braudy_retires_instorya-406x550.jpg 406w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/05\/braudy_retires_instorya-757x1024.jpg 757w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/05\/braudy_retires_instorya-768x1039.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/05\/braudy_retires_instorya.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 406px) 100vw, 406px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20167\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leo Braudy launched the Trojan Food Pantry to help students in need.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As an undergraduate at Swarthmore, Braudy fell for 17th- and 18th-century literature. Those two centuries \u201cwere very generative,\u201d he says. \u201cThere were so many new things going on. I was attracted by its incoherence, and I wanted to find the through line.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After his college graduation, Braudy went to Yale, where he completed an MA and PhD on the relationship between history and novel writing in the 18th century. His first academic publications set the tone for the rest of his career: a paper on Samuel Johnson\u2019s <em>Dictionary<\/em> and an essay on Alfred Hitchcock\u2019s <em>Psycho<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Between the late 1960s and early \u201980s, Braudy was playing \u201cmusical chairs,\u201d as he puts it, up and down the East Coast, with tenure-track posts in the English departments at Yale, Columbia and Johns Hopkins. \u201cIt was an energetic time. Departments were trying to build themselves up in different subject areas by courting people,\u201d he notes.<\/p>\n<p>During that period, Braudy published his book on Jean Renoir, the first English-language study on the director, as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/press.uchicago.edu\/ucp\/books\/book\/chicago\/W\/bo3635230.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The World in a Frame<\/em><\/a> (Doubleday, 1976), his now-classic volume of film theory, still in print almost 50 years later. Meanwhile, he spent summers at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he helped build a film studies program and developed a groundbreaking course on film and popular culture. The syllabus for that course became a model for similar ones around the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a time of great ferment,\u201d he says. \u201cThere was this effort to create film studies as its own field.\u201d But Braudy didn\u2019t just study film. He was in them, too, with roles in the John Waters satire <em>Polyester<\/em> and in Robert Kramer\u2019s 1970 drama <em>Ice<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h2>USC and Southern California beckon Braudy<\/h2>\n<p>In 1983, Braudy accepted an offer from USC, and he and his wife, the painter Dorothy Braudy, moved to Los Angeles, where they bought a Spanish-style house on the edge of Griffith Park, where they still live. He was immediately struck by USC\u2019s close-knit community, which compared favorably with the East Coast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I arrived here, there was all this talk of the Trojan family, which I initially thought was just a branding thing,\u201d he says. \u201cBut I quickly realized it was true. There\u2019s a cohesiveness here, a way in which people look out for each other and take joy in relating to each other, both academically and personally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>USC\u2019s encouragement of interdisciplinary scholarship also attracted him, and Southern California was the perfect location for writing about movies. Plus, his wife hailed originally from L.A. \u201cShe always considered it appropriate for it to be warm at Christmas,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>Across his four decades at USC Dornsife, Braudy taught courses and wrote a celebrated cultural history of fame and a book on the meaning of the Hollywood sign. His 2003 book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/17729\/from-chivalry-to-terrorism-by-leo-braudy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>From Chivalry to Terrorism:<\/em> <em>War and the Changing Nature of Masculinity<\/em><\/a> (Alfred A. Knopf, 2003),\u201d a study of the changing nature of masculinity, was a <em>New York Times<\/em> Notable Book of the Year, and listed as Best of the Best by the <em>Los Angeles Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h2>The Braudys support fellow Trojans<\/h2>\n<p>He remains dedicated to the USC Dornsife community, a commitment demonstrated by his many years of service, including four years as a member of the University Committee on Academic Review and five years as the chair of the University Committee on Appointments, Promotions and Tenure.<\/p>\n<p>Braudy and his wife have also been generous donors.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, the couple wished to make a gift that would be as impactful as possible. Upon learning about food insecurity on campus, they started what became the Trojan Food Pantry, which offers fresh food and other urgently required supplies for students in need. \u201cWe are proud to have planted the first seeds to help students in this way,\u201d says Braudy.<\/p>\n<p>Braudy\u2019s retirement will free up time to spend with his two sons and three grandsons, and his close-knit neighborhood community of friends. But scholarship will always be central to his life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA friend of mine once said that, in academia, retirement is redundant. By which he meant you end up doing very similar things you did before you retired \u2014 reading books and writing articles,\u201d he says. \u201cSo, I\u2019m not quite stepping into the dark. 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