Output details
34 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
Birkbeck College
Chapter title
Prolégomènes à une histoire de la critique au Royaume-Uni
Type
C - Chapter in book
DOI
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Publisher of book
Tours: Presses Universitaires François Rabelais
Book title
Le Texte critique. Expérimenter le théâtre et le cinéma aux XXe et XXIe siècles
ISBN of book
9782869063013
Year of publication
2013
URL
-
Number of additional authors
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Additional information
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Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
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Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
Yes
English abstract
This essay is a contribution to the history of film criticism, providing an overview of the British tradition from its beginning to the present day. The discussion is constructed in three parts: the origins of film criticism in relation to the emergence of a cultural discourse around film as an entertainment, and later as an art form; the glory years of film criticism in the 1920s through to the 1950s, when specialised film critics became revered figures in the press; finally, the case of Sight & Sound highlights the evolution of film criticism from the 1960s to the present.
