The Language and Style of Film Criticism: Young People, Technology and the New Literacies

The Language and Style of Film Criticism brings together original essays from an international range of academics and film critics highlighting the achievements, complexities and potential of film criticism. In recent years, in contrast to the theoretical, historical and cultural study of film, film criticism has been relatively marginalised, especially within the academy. This book highlights the distinctiveness of film criticism and addresses ways in which it can take a more central place within the academy and develop in dynamic ways outside it. The Language and Style of Film Criticism is essential reading for academics, teachers, students and journalists who wish to understand and appreciate the language and style of film criticism. Title......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Contents......Page 8 Figures......Page 10 Contributors......Page 12 Introduction: The language and style of film criticism......Page 14 1 Coming to Terms......Page 40 2 Questioning Style......Page 51 3 Incursions......Page 67 4 Description......Page 83 5 Writing About Performance: The Film Critic as Actor......Page 100 6 Silence and Stasis......Page 120 7 Four Against the House......Page 134 8 Being Seized......Page 152 9 Memories that Don't Seem Mine......Page 170 10 La Caméra-Stylo: Notes on video criticism and cinephilia......Page 189 Index......Page 205 Introduction / Alex Clayton and Andrew Klevan Coming to terms / Alex Clayton Questioning style / Robert Sinnerbrink Incursions / Adrian Martin Description / Andrew Klevan Writing about performance: the film critic as actor / George Toles Silence and stasis / William Rothman Four against the house / Richard Combs Being seized / Charles Warren Memories that don't seem mine / Lesley Stern La caméra-stylo: notes on video criticism and cinephilia / Christian Keathley.