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.
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.
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
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
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