How Discourse Culture Is Overtaking Film Criticism
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Jourdain Searles
Summary
The article argues that the discourse around representation and identity politics has overtaken film criticism, preventing audiences from engaging with films on their own artistic terms. It references the #OscarsSoWhite movement and the overdue critical evaluation of how marginalized people have been portrayed in cinema, but suggests that this discourse has become dominant to the point of ruining genuine film criticism.
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· 3 pulledCan't we just watch films on their own terms?
In the mid to late 2010s, during the time of #OscarsSoWhite, conversations about representation in mainstream cinema led to a communal critical evaluation of how marginalized people, especially Black people, had been portrayed onscreen since the invention of cinema.
These critiques were overdue, covering a variety of films and genres.
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