[ecrea] Cultural Criticism in the Digital Age: Media, Purposes, and the Status of the Critic

The Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Film and the Moving Image
presents a Symposium on:

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*Cultural Criticism in the Digital Age: Media, Purposes, and the Status
of the Critic *

7 June 2012, Marlowe Lecture Theatre 2, University of Kent


The aims and status of arts and culture criticism are under
attack, whether judging by the number of critics losing their jobs at
newspapers, magazines and other âEUR~old mediaâEUR^(TM), or by the proliferation of
academic monographs bemoaning / The Crisis of Criticism/ and mourning
/The Death of the Critic/. This symposium offers the views from critics
and academics from various fields, offering historical case studies and
inquiring into the role of critics today.

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*Programme*

9:30:*Coffee*

10:00: *Cultural Critics in the Radio Age: Evolutions in the policy,
practice and form of the BBC's broadcast criticism *

Melanie Selfe (University of Glasgow âEUR" Dept. of Theatre, Film and
Television)

11:00:*Film Criticism as Crisis History*

Mattias Frey (University of Kent âEUR" School of Arts, Film)

12:00:*Lunch*

13:00:*How to Move a Critic*

Duska Radosavljevic (University of Kent âEUR" School of Arts, Drama and Theatre)

14:00:*Bob DylanâEUR^(TM)s Pharmacy: Electricity, Contamination and Performance*

Larry Duffy (University of Kent âEUR" School of European Culture and
Languages, French)

15:00:*Coffee*

15:30: *Narcissists and Technocrats: Social Media and the Culture of
Online Opinion*

JJ Charlesworth (Art Critic)

16:30:*Plenary*

17:00:*Drinks reception*

The symposium is sponsored by the Faculty of Humanities Strategic
Research Development Fund and the School of Arts (University of Kent)

Organisers: Dr. Mattias Frey and Dr. Cecilia Sayad, with Emre Caglayan
and Keeley Saunders


Dr. Mattias Frey
Lecturer in Film Studies
Director of Recruitment, Marketing and Internationalisation, School of Arts
Admissions Officer, Film
Coordinator for Erasmus and Year Abroad Programmes, Film
University of Kent
Jarman School of Arts 2-26
Canterbury CT2 7UG
UK

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http://www.kent.ac.uk/arts/staff-profiles/profiles/film/frey.html