Leo Braudy is a professor emeritus of English and art history at the University of Southern California.
Leo Braudy
Articles
The Lucas Museum and the Question of Narrative Art
Leo Braudy proposes a historical and aesthetic rationale for George Lucas’s Museum of Narrative Art.
“A Dreadful Plague in London Was”
What Daniel Defoe’s “A Journal of the Plague Year” can teach us about the COVID-19 pandemic.
Acting and Impersonation
Leo Braudy on Acting Otherness and the Academy Awards.
The Nature of War: A 10-Best List from Leo Braudy
The Ten Best Books on Warfare
Pete Seeger was no Llewyn Davis
The Highbrow Populist: George Plimpton on Film
Plimpton: The Movie
The Time of Our Lives: On Christian Marclay’s “The Clock”
As it ticks away, "The Clock" taps into the enormous storehouse of images bouncing around in our heads.
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