AcknowledgmentsIntroduction Part I: The Critic and the
Audience
Chapter 1. Thumbs in the Crowd: Artists and Audiences in the
Post-Vanguard WorldChapter 2: Critics Through Authors: Dialogues,
Similarities, and the Sense of a CrisisChapter 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 IMDbChapter 5. The Price of Conservation: Online Video
Criticism of Film in ItalyChapter 6. Before and After AfterEllen:
Online Queer Cinephile Communities as Critical
CounterpublicsChapter 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 EraChapter 9. Finnish Film Critics and the
Uncertainties of the Profession in the Digital AgeChapter 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 MoviesChapter 13. Who Needs
Critics?Chapter 14. Excerpts from Cineaste’s “Film Criticism in the
Age of the Internet: A Critical Symposium” AfterwordSelected
BibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex
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.
"This is a great and highly important volume for film studies as a
discipline and cultural and media studies more generally."
*New York University*
"Frey and Sayad assemble both academic and popular analyses on the
dearth – perhaps death – of the working film critic,
caught up and rubbed out in the brave new World Wide Web of
bottomless blogs and 14-character tweets. Refusing a simplistic
'thumbs up/thumbs down' approach, this useful if fitful anthology
merits several stars."
*Journal of Film and Video*
"Offers such distinguished critics as Armond White and Nick James a
chance to weight in on the need for informed, responsible film
criticism in the digital era… Highly recommended."
*Choice*
"Frey and Sayad assemble both academic and popular analyses on the
dearth – perhaps death – of the working film critic,
caught up and rubbed out in the brave new World Wide Web of
bottomless blogs and 14-character tweets. Refusing a simplistic
'thumbs up/thumbs down' approach, this useful if fitful anthology
merits several stars."
*Journal of Film and Video*
"This is a great and highly important volume for film studies as a
discipline and cultural and media studies more generally."
*New York University*
"Offers such distinguished critics as Armond White and Nick James a
chance to weight in on the need for informed, responsible film
criticism in the digital era… Highly recommended."
*Choice*
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