Event description

Just as film has moved from celluloid to the digital, film criticism has also changed dramatically in recent years; with the advent of internet blogging and the decline of newspaper publishing, critics have to change the way they communicate with readers about film. This talk surveys the major purposes and forms of film writing in 21st-century Britain.

Institution profile

The University of Kent is a leading research-intensive university in the south-east of England. With its main campuses in Canterbury and Medway, and postgraduate centres in Brussels, Paris and Athens, Kent has an international reputation for academic excellence, inspirational teaching and a fantastic student experience. In the Government's Research Assessment Exercise, the University was placed in the top 15% in the UK for its world-leading research, with all academic schools and centres producing research rated as world leading or internationally excellent.

Speaker profile

BIO: Mattias Frey is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Kent. His research revolves around European cinema, historiography, matters of media reception and consumption, the history of 'classical' and contemporary film theory, movie criticism and cinephilia. He has published in the major subject journals, including Cinema Journal and Screen; his books include Postwall German Cinema: History, Film History and Cinephilia (Berghahn, 2013) and Cine-Ethics:Ethical Dimensions of Film Theory, Practice and Spectatorship (Routledge,2013).

Date: 17/11/2012 Time: 18:30 - 20:00 Venue: British Council 1-2, Kagurazaka, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-0825 Japan