University of Texas Press Cineaste on Film Criticism, Programming, and Preservation in the New Millennium

Product Description Digital technology and the Internet have revolutionized film criticism, programming, and preservation in deeply paradoxical ways. The Internet allows almost everyone to participate in critical discourse, but many print publications and salaried positions for professional film critics have been eliminated. Digital technologies have broadened access to filmmaking capabilities, as well as making thousands of older films available on DVD and electronically. At the same time, however, fewer older films can be viewed in their original celluloid format, and newer, digitally produced films that have no "material" prototype are threatened by ever-changing servers that render them obsolete and inaccessible. Cineaste, one of the oldest and most influential publications focusing on film, has investigated these trends through a series of symposia with the top film critics, programmers, and preservationists in the United States and beyond. This volume compiles several of these symposia: "Film Criticism in America Today" (2000), "International Film Criticism Today" (2005), "Film Criticism in the Age of the Internet" (2008), "Film Criticism: The Next Generation" (2013), "The Art of Repertory Film Exhibition and Digital Age Challenges" (2010), and "Film Preservation in the Digital Age" (2011). It also includes interviews with the late, celebrated New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael and the critic John Bloom ("Joe Bob Briggs"), as well as interviews with the programmers/curators Peter von Bagh and Mark Cousins and with the film preservationist George Feltenstein. This authoritative collection of primary-source documents will be essential reading for scholars, students, and film enthusiasts. Review The collection provides a fascinating look into how film criticism, programming, preservation, and cinema itself have evolved to meet the changes wrought by the rise of the internet during the early years of the twenty-first century...Cineaste on Film Criticism, Programming, and Preservation in the New Millennium should be of interest to scholars, students, and anyone seriously interested in film.-- "Popular Culture Studies Journal" (4/1/2020 12:00:00 AM) Review "The symposia and interviews published in Cineaste magazine over the years constitute an essential archive as well as a reference source for multiple reading communities. This book will certainly appeal to film scholars but also to any reader who takes movies seriously. No other book is at all comparable." Author: Krin Gabbard, Columbia University, editor-in-chief of the cinema and media studies section of the Oxford Bibliographies About the Author Cynthia Lucia has served on Cineaste’s editorial board for more than two decades. She is a professor of English and the director of the Film/Media Studies Program at Rider University. Rahul Hamid has been an editor at Cineaste for ten years. He teaches film studies at New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study, where he is director of student affairs.