[ecrea] The Permanent Crisis of Film Criticism: The Anxiety of Authority

I am pleased to announce the recent publication of:

The Permanent Crisis of Film Criticism: The Anxiety of Authority

Mattias Frey

Amsterdam University Press

Film criticism is in crisis. Bemoaning the current anarchy of Internet
amateurs and the lack of authoritative critics in a time of laid-off
film reporters, many journalists and scholars claim that cultural
commentary has become dumbed down and fragmented in the digital age.
Mattias Frey, arguing against this idea, examines the history of film
critical discourse in France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the
United States. He demonstrates that since its origins, film criticism
has always found itself in crisis: the need to show critical authority
and the anxieties over challenges to that authority have been
long-standing concerns.

The Permanent Crisis of Film Criticism: The Anxiety of Authority

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Permanent-Crisis-Film-Criticism/dp/9089647171

Introduction available at:

http://en.aup.nl/download/Look%20Inside%20The%20Permanent%20Crisis%20of%20Film%20Criticism.pdf


Dr Mattias Frey
Senior Lecturer in Film Studies
Co-Editor, /Film Studies/
Co-Director, Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Film and the
Moving Image
University of Kent
Jarman School of Arts, 2-26
Canterbury CT2 7UG
UK

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