Native Informant: Essays on Film, Fiction, and Popular Culture

by Leo Braudy

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195052749
• ISBN13: 9780195052749
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.6"