http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2010/04/07/letting-go-of-criticism-only-in-america/ Responses to Media and Culture Fri, 12 Feb 2016 19:35:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.5 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2010/04/07/letting-go-of-criticism-only-in-america/comment-page-1/#comment-3111 Fri, 09 Apr 2010 18:28:11 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=2857#comment-3111 I agree with Colin’s observations that the challenges of criticism are perhaps local, not necessarily global. This challenges go partly hand in hand with institutional support, not lack of talent, knowledge, or quality writers. Popular film criticism, which has survived greatly in the payrolls of newspapers and tv broadcasters, is in crisis partly because the crises of newspapers and broadcasters. Interestingly, Cubans have had their own version of televised film criticism, a show called 24 por segundo, headed (among others) by Enrique Colina, one of Cuba’s most important film critics. You can see a small example of this tv show at youtube.com: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30iFCpOj_ng

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