Native informant : essays on film, fiction, and popular culture / Leo Braudy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Braudy, Leo.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures.

Fiction.

Popular culture.

Physical Description:

x, 304 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1991.

Contents:

I. Principles

Popular Culture and Personal Time 13

Succeeding in Language 26

Being a Teacher 37

II. Authors and Audiences

The Rise of the Auteur 43

Hitchcock, Truffaut, and the Irresponsible Audience 51

Maidstone: A Mystery by Norman Mailer 60

Stargazer by Stephen Koch [on Andy Warhol] 64

The Double Detachment of Ernst Lubitsch 67

III. Body and Text

Fanny Hill and Materialism 79

Zola on Film: The Ambiguities of Naturalism 95

Lexicography and Biography in the Preface to Johnson's Dictionary 107

Daniel Defoe and the Anxieties of Autobiography 111

A Genealogy of Mind [on Susan Sontag] 126

Adulation and Revenge 132

IV. Fictions of Feeling

Providence, Paranoia, and the Novel 137

Penetration and Impenetrability in Clarissa 152

The Form of the Sentimental Novel 169

Edward Gibbon and "The Privilege of Fiction" 179

Mad in Pursuit 193

V. The Sway of Genre

Framing the Innocent Eye: 42nd Street and Persona 201

Genre and the Resurrection of the Past 214

Newsreel: A Report 225

In the Criminal Style 230

Western Approaches 235

The Sacraments of Genre: Coppola, DePalma, Scorsese 240

VI. Myths of History

G. by John Berger 255

Grime on the Glitter: Hollywood and McCarthyism 258

We Are Your Sons by Michael and Robert Meeropol 262

Regiment of Women by Thomas Berger 265

Winter Kills by Richard Condon 268

The Difficulties of Little Big Man 271

Democracy and the Humanities 279

California Criticism: From Tweed Jacket to Wet Suit 288.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0195052749

OCLC:

21300695