The Letterboxd
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East Asian Auteurism, Cinephilia and the Media Platform Era
Author: Dorothy Wai Sim Lau
language: en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date: 2025-07-31
This book makes a critical intervention in the scholarship of East Asian cinema by examining how the platform-driven cinephilic engagement evokes a new imaginary of auteurs. While East Asian filmmakers continue to provide world screens with vibrant and innovative works in recent years, their names and visions have been intensely scrutinised and renegotiated by global cinephiles on digital media platforms such as Facebook, Letterboxd, MUBI, X, and Bilibili. The novel cinephilic experiences potentially problematises the authorial intent and structure legitimised by the traditional cinema, thus, challenging what film authorship means. This monograph employs a dual structuring of auteurism and digital cinephilia to contend how East Asian auteurs' brands are recoded, re-mobilised, and reassessed by platform users. As the first book-length account in the area, this volume calls for conceptual rethought of the auteur function in East Asia at the crossroads of film studies, audience/cinephilia studies, and new media studies.
Last Week in End Times Cinema
An almanac of every bad thing that happened in the film industry from March 2024 to March 2025. From A. S. Hamrah, the film critic at n+1 and the author of The Earth Dies Streaming: Film Writing, 2002–2018, comes this unique archive of unfortunate movie bulletins, compiled for his weekly newsletter, Last Week in End Times Cinema, and presented here in digest form. These customized batches of misfortune and upheaval record a full year of wrong thinking, bad decisions, and man-made disasters from the world of filmmaking. Set against the backdrop of the crazed push for AI, the wildfires in Los Angeles, and the reelection of Donald Trump, the general disaster of current commercial cinema in the age of streaming platforms, theater closures, and the dead-end reliance on IP franchising becomes apparent. As the Hollywood film industry plunged into near irrelevance, these weekly roundups tracked every passing mistake, every easily avoided blunder, every up-to-the-minute example of unnecessary garbage as it emerged from the content mills of our newly tech-based movie business. Presented without commentary, footnotes, or links, inspired by Félix Fénéon’s Novels in Three Lines and the Coffee News, this compilation lists filmland items in naked form, stripped of any ameliorating showbiz happy talk. As Fred Allen once wrote about Hollywood, beneath all that phony tinsel there is real tinsel. Here it is, all the shiny nothingness of an industry gone astray.
Digital Film and Television Culture
Author: Helle Kannik Haastrup
language: en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date: 2025-04-14
Digital Film and Television Culture introduces a new framework for the aesthetic and cultural analysis of contemporary film and serial drama, stars on social media and movie awards shows. It examines contemporary digital media culture with four specific case studies, their cultural contexts and how audiences engage with them online. Drawing on two perspectives – the digital media circuit and the expanded cultural forum – as frameworks for the analysis, this book explores the complexity of film and television culture in the digital age. The analysis encompasses films with experimental storytelling techniques, from blockbusters to art films, coming-of-age serial drama as hybrid genre, the visual identity narratives of movie stars on social media and the broadcast movie awards as a cultural authority in the era of streaming. The book offers in-depth case studies of Everything Everywhere All at Once, Stranger Things, the performance of Zendaya and Timothée Chalamet on Instagram and the Academy Awards Ceremony as live media event genre. Each chapter includes a genre analysis, an examination of the cultural context and a micro-study of how audiences engage on Letterboxd, Reddit or other social media. This timely, cross-disciplinary book is essential reading for students and scholars in film, media, cultural studies, celebrity and digital cultures and for anyone interested in contemporary film and television culture.