Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: The Critic and the Audience
Chapter 1. Thumbs in the Crowd: Artists and Audiences in the Post-Vanguard World
Chapter 2: Critics Through Authors: Dialogues, Similarities, and the Sense of a Crisis
Chapter 3. “The Last Honest Film Critic in America”: Armond White and the Children of James Baldwin
Part II: New Forms and Activities
Chapter 4. The New Democracy? Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, Twitter, and IMDb
Chapter 5. The Price of Conservation: Online Video Criticism of Film in Italy
Chapter 6. Before and After AfterEllen: Online Queer Cinephile Communities as Critical Counterpublics
Chapter 7. Elevating the “Amateur”: NollywoodCritics and the Politics of Diasporic Film Criticism
Part III: Institutions and the Profession
Chapter 8. American Nationwide Associations of Film Critics in the Internet Era
Chapter 9. Finnish Film Critics and the Uncertainties of the Profession in the Digital Age
Chapter 10. The Social Function of Criticism; or, Why Does the Cinema Have (to Have) a Soul?
Part IV: Critics Speak
Chapter 11. The Critic Is Dead . . .
Chapter 12. What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Movies
Chapter 13. Who Needs Critics?
Chapter 14. Excerpts from Cineaste’s “Film Criticism in the Age of the Internet: A Critical Symposium”
Afterword
Selected Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index
