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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The Birthing Pains of the First Professionals: Promotion and Distinction
2. Second-Wave Crises of Proximity and Distance: Relating to the Industry and the Audience
3. The Institutional Assertion of Authority: Sight and Sound and the Postwar Cinephile Challenge
4. From “I” to “We”: Filmkritik and the Limits of Kracauerism in Postwar German Film Criticism
5. The Anxiety of Influence: The “Golden Age” of Criticism, the Rise of the TV Pundit, and the Memory of Pauline Kael
6. The Spectre of “Democratization” in the Digital Age
Conclusion. What is the Good of Authoritative Critics?
Notes
Bibliography
Index