Film Criticism as a Cultural Institution

ISBN-13: 9781138186583 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 202 str.

Huw Walmsley-Evans

Opis

This book maps contemporary film criticism as a cultural institution. At the beginning of the 21^st century film criticism was talked about as an institution in crisis. The decline of print journalism, a series of lay-offs of prominent American critics, and the rise of "amateur" reviewing online, spurred a conversation about the decline, even death, of film criticism. The book first examines this recent crisis discourse and then compares it against historical precedents stretching back to the early 20^th century. It finds that "crisis" has always been a leitmotif of film criticism s conception. The book then provides what the crisis conversation does not: an account of film criticism s institutional formations. This book maps film criticism by elucidating its various practices, tasks, comportments, and personae, primarily using US, UK, and Australian case studies, but also comparing these to continental European and broader international experiences. While not denying the changes and challenges that contemporary film criticism faces, this book situates these within an historical context and institutional framework that allows us to move beyond the crisis discourse. "

Spis treści

Introduction: Film Criticism as a Cultural Institution  Part I: Understanding the Conversation  1. Crisis and Continuity in Film Criticism  2. Institutional Approaches to Film Criticism  Part II: Towards an Ecology  3. Sites of Film Criticism  4. The Profession of Film Criticism  5. Film Critics Circles  6. Film Criticism and the Internet  Epilogue: Film Criticism in the 21^st Century

O autorze

Huw Walmsley-Evans has taught film, media, communication, and cultural studies for a decade at institutions including the University of Queensland and Queensland University of Technology. His writing has appeared in Screening the Past, Senses of Cinema, LOLA, and Screen Machine. He is the co-founder and co-director of the Queensland Film Festival. He received his doctorate from the University of Queensland in 2013. This is his first book.