James Dudley Andrew (born July 28, 1945)[1][2] is an American film theorist.
He is R. Selden Rose Professor Emeritus of Film and Comparative Literature at Yale University, where he has taught since the year 2000.
Andrew has been called, on the occasion of one of his invited lecture series, "one of the most influential scholars in the areas of theory, history and criticism".
[1] In 2011, he received the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Distinguished Career Achievement Award.
After more than 50 years as a teacher and scholar, he has directed the dissertations of many of today’s leaders in Film studies, and his books have been widely translated, including into French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Serbo-Croatian, and Polish.