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.
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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.