Dudley Andrew is professor of Film and Comparative Literature at Yale. Biographer of André Bazin, he extends Bazin’s thought in What Cinema Is! (2011) and in the edited volume, Opening Bazin (2012). Working in aesthetics and cultural history, he has written books on French cinema and is preparing Encountering World Cinema, featuring European, African, and especially East Asian cinema. Andrew is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.