My Relationship with Review Culture
Over the course of this blog and its various entries, the predominant focus has been the audience's relationship with critics, and how that relationship has evolved and shifted due to the popularity of social media. The World Wide Web has seemingly replaced "expertise with amateurs, fanboys and obscurantists" ( Dissent Magazine ) but has also arguably enhanced criticism and review culture into a new realm where audiences can be just as influential. It's also provided new opportunities for critics to produce impressive work and has, in the words of Charles Taylor, "given a new home to film criticism" - a sentiment that I agree with. I am a fan of film criticism and heavily engage with it, both as a consumer and as a producer: I co-own a blog entitled The Cynical Cinephiles where I write and publish reviews of films that have recently been released in cinemas of my own. Without the means of the World Wide Web, I would not be able to explore this outlet or