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Chicago critic Roger Ebert (right) with director Russ Meyer. Film criticism is the analysis and evaluation of films and the film medium. In general, film criticism can be divided into two categories: Academic criticism by film scholars, who study the composition of film theory and publish their findings and essays in books and journals, and general journalistic criticism that appears regularly ...
The film's narrator is a male protagonist who provides a subjective voice-over. He is involved in "an erotic triangle" with "a female object of desire" (Marla Singer) and a male antagonist (Tyler Durden). The masculinity in the film differs from noir films by focusing on the upper middle class instead of the lower middle class or the working class.
Richard Crouse. Bosley Crowther (The New York Times) Mike D'Angelo (Esquire) Manohla Dargis (The New York Times) David Denby (The New Yorker) Alonso Duralde (The Wrap) Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times, At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper) David Edelstein (New York Magazine, NPR 's Fresh Air, CBS Sunday Morning) Glenn Erickson (Online Film Critics ...
Feminist film theory. Feminist film theory is a theoretical film criticism derived from feminist politics and feminist theory influenced by second-wave feminism and brought about around the 1970s in the United States. With the advancements in film throughout the years feminist film theory has developed and changed to analyse the current ways of ...
White savior narrative in film. The white savior is a cinematic trope in which a white central character rescues non-white (often less prominent) characters from unfortunate circumstances. [1] This recurs in an array of genres in American cinema, wherein a white protagonist is portrayed as a messianic figure who often gains some insight or ...
Film director and critic François Truffaut in 1965. Even before auteur theory, the director was considered the most important influence on a film. In Germany, an early film theorist, Walter Julius Bloem, explained that since filmmaking is an art geared toward popular culture, a film's immediate influence, the director, is viewed as the artist, whereas an earlier contributor, like the ...
An art film, art cinema, or arthouse film is typically an independent film, aimed at a niche market rather than a mass market audience. [1] It is "intended to be a serious, artistic work, often experimental and not designed for mass appeal", [2] "made primarily for aesthetic reasons rather than commercial profit", [3] and containing ...
Aesthetic criticism is a part of aesthetics concerned with critically judging beauty and ugliness, tastefulness and tastelessness, style and fashion, meaning and quality of design—and issues of human sentiment and affect (the evoking of pleasure and pain, likes and dislikes). Most parts of human life have an aesthetic dimension, which means ...