Leo Braudy is University Professor and Bing Professor of English and American Literature at USC, where he teaches seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English literature, film history and criticism, and American culture. He has also taught at Yale, Columbia, and Johns Hopkins. He is the editor of anthologies dealing with Norman Mailer and with François Truffaut's Shoot the Piano Player and the co-editor of Great Film Directors and the fourth, fifth, and sixth editions of Film Theory and Criticism. Among his books are The World in a Frame; Jean Renoir; The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and Its History; Native Informant: Essays on Film, Fiction, and Popular Culture; From Chivalry to Terrorism: War and the Changing Nature of Masculinity, and most recently a volume in the British Film Institute’s Film Classics series about Elia Kazan’s On the Waterfront.