Film, Television, Media Old and New

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Film, Television, Media Old and New

Lili Loofbourow and David Thomson
The Future of Cultural Criticism
Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

The Art of Cultural Criticism is a yearlong series of conversations featuring some of the most innovative and incisive writers on culture in its various forms — including visual art, film, old and new media, music, and literature.

Lili Loofbourow currently serves as critic-at-large for the Week. Her work on TV, film, and politics has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the Guardian, the New Republic, Salon, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and other publications.

David Thomson is a film critic and historian. He is the author of over 20 books, including The Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood, Why Acting Matters, How to Watch a Movie, and The New Biographical Dictionary of Film.

Sponsored by the Townsend Center for the Humanities, the Arts+Design Initiative, the Arts Research Center, and the Art of Writing.