What Are You Missing? March 1-13
Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently: 1. The upside and downside of Twitter and celebrity: Conan O’Brien turned to Twitter to entertain us (thus becoming what he once...
View ArticleLetting Go of Criticism
At the Movies, the one remaining television network show about film criticism, is cancelled and the hosts A.O. Scott (the New York Times’ film expert) and Michael Phillips (the Chicago Tribune’s film...
View ArticleLetting Go of Criticism: Only in America?
The New York Times article referenced in Hector Amaya’s recent blog entry on this website belongs to an ever-expanding lamentation in American film culture. I stress American for good reason. When...
View ArticleWhat Are You Missing? February 13-26
Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently: 1. In a significant development for internet cinephilia, Hulu is heading down more of a movie buff route than Netflix is and has...
View ArticleMissionary for the Movies: Remembering Roger Ebert
During the late twentieth century, there were four primary platforms for American film criticism. There was the popular press, all the daily newspapers and weekly mass-circulation magazines. There was...
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