{"id":849,"date":"2015-04-14T09:19:14","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T08:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/?p=849"},"modified":"2015-04-14T09:19:37","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T08:19:37","slug":"film-academics-publish-film-criticism-in-the-digital-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2015\/04\/14\/film-academics-publish-film-criticism-in-the-digital-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Film Academics publish ‘Film Criticism in the Digital Age’"},"content":{"rendered":"

FILM CRITICISM IN THE DIGITAL AGE\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Edited by Mattias Frey and Cecilia Sayad<\/strong><\/p>\n

“This is a great and highly important volume for film studies as a discipline and cultural and media studies more generally.” <\/em>\u2014Dana Polan, New York University<\/p>\n

Over the past decade, as digital media has expanded and print outlets have declined, pundits have bemoaned a \u201ccrisis of criticism\u201d and mourned the \u201cdeath of the critic.\u201d Now that well-paying jobs in film criticism have largely evaporated, while blogs, message boards, and social media have given new meaning to the saying that \u201ceveryone\u2019s a critic,\u201d urgent questions have emerged about the status and purpose of film criticism in the twenty-first century.
\nFILM CRITICISM IN THE DIGITAL AGE <\/strong>(paper $31.95, 978-0-8135-7072-3, April 2015), edited by Mattias Frey and Cecilia Sayad, joins ten scholars from across the globe to consider whether we are witnessing the extinction of serious film criticism or seeing the start of its rebirth in a new form. Drawing from a wide variety of case studies and methodological perspectives, the book\u2019s contributors find many signs of the film critic\u2019s declining clout, but they also locate surprising examples of how critics\u2014whether moonlighting bloggers or salaried writers\u2014have been able to intervene in current popular discourse about arts and culture.
\nIn addition to collecting a plethora of scholarly perspectives,\u00a0FILM CRITICISM IN THE DIGITAL AGE<\/strong> includes statements from key bloggers and print critics, like Armond White and Nick James. Neither an uncritical celebration of digital culture nor a jeremiad against it, this anthology offers a comprehensive look at the challenges and possibilities that the Internet brings to the evaluation, promotion, and explanation of artistic works.<\/p>\n

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About the Editors<\/span><\/p>\n

MATTIAS FREY <\/strong>is a senior lecturer in film at the University of Kent. He is the author of Postwall German Cinema: History, Film History, and Cinephilia<\/em>\u00a0and co-editor of\u00a0Cine-Ethics: Ethical Dimensions of Film Theory, Practice, and Spectatorship<\/em>.<\/p>\n

CECILIA SAYAD <\/strong>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<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0O Jogo da Reinven\u00e7\u00e3o<\/em>, a Portuguese-language study of Charlie Kaufman\u2019s filmography.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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FILM CRITICISM IN THE DIGITAL AGE<\/strong><\/p>\n

Edited by Mattias Frey and Cecilia Sayad<\/strong><\/p>\n

Paper $31.95 | 978-0-8135-7072-3 | 284 pages, 3 photos, 3 tables| 6 x 9<\/p>\n

cloth and ebook available<\/p>\n

Publication Date: April 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n

Please email requests for review copies and be sure to include the title, author, ISBN number, as well as the address of the person to whom the book should be sent.<\/em><\/p>\n

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