Film Criticism in the Digital Age

Herausgeber: Frey, Mattias; Sayad, Cecilia

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Produktbeschreibung

Over the past decade, as digital media has expanded and print outlets have declined, pundits have bemoaned a "crisis of criticism” and mourned the "death of the critic”. In Film Criticism in the Digital Age, ten scholars from across the globe come together to consider whether we are witnessing the extinction of serious film criticism or seeing the start of its rebirth in a new form.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 396g
• ISBN-13: 9780813570723
• ISBN-10: 0813570727
• Artikelnr.: 41752518

Autorenporträt

MATTIAS FREY is a senior lecturer in film at the University of Kent. He is the author of Postwall German Cinema: History, Film History, and Cinephilia and co-editor of Cine-Ethics: Ethical Dimensions of Film Theory, Practice, and Spectatorship.   CECILIA SAYAD is a senior lecturer in film at the University of Kent. She is the author of Performing Authorship: Self-Inscription and Corporeality in the Cinema and O Jogo da Reinvenção, a Portuguese-language study of Charlie Kaufman’s filmography.   

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
 
Part I: The Critic and the Audience
 
Chapter 1. Thumbs in the Crowd: Artists and Audiences in the Post-Vanguard
World
Chapter 2: Critics Through Authors: Dialogues, Similarities, and the Sense
of a Crisis
Chapter 3. “The Last Honest Film Critic in America”: Armond White and the
Children of James Baldwin
 
Part II: New Forms and Activities
 
Chapter 4. The New Democracy? Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, Twitter, and
IMDb
Chapter 5. The Price of Conservation: Online Video Criticism of Film in
Italy
Chapter 6. Before and After AfterEllen: Online Queer Cinephile Communities
as Critical Counterpublics
Chapter 7. Elevating the “Amateur”: NollywoodCritics and the Politics of
Diasporic Film Criticism
 
Part III: Institutions and the Profession
 
Chapter 8. American Nationwide Associations of Film Critics in the Internet
Era
Chapter 9. Finnish Film Critics and the Uncertainties of the Profession in
the Digital Age
Chapter 10. The Social Function of Criticism; or, Why Does the Cinema Have
(to Have) a Soul?
 
Part IV: Critics Speak
 
Chapter 11. The Critic Is Dead . . .
Chapter 12. What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Movies
Chapter 13. Who Needs Critics?
Chapter 14. Excerpts from Cineaste’s “Film Criticism in the Age of the
Internet: A Critical Symposium”
 
Afterword
Selected Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index