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- Die Critics Die - Dedicated to criticizing renowned film critics. Uses background biographical knowledge on the critics to discredit them.
- Hyperizons - Theory and Criticism of Hypertext Fiction, by Michael Shumate.
- Image and Narrative - An academic e-journal on theory and criticism of visual narrative.
- A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism, and Philology - FTP directory of more than 130,000 items, including lists for individual authors and critical schools, literary theory, literary history, aesthetics, semiotics, and related subjects. By Jose Angel Garcia Landa.
- Latent Image Film Journal - Written by Emerson College students, explores the medium of film through reviews, criticisms, theory, and opinions.
- Freeman's Critical Eye - Critical analysis of current and past films, as well as theoretical discussions on cinema.
- Smelik - Feminist Film Theory - An introduction to the discipline. Covers classical narrative structure, a feminist counter-cinema, feminine look and subjectivity, and raises issues relating to gay and lesbian cinema, race, masculinity, and queer theory. Includes bibliography.
- International Federation of Film Critics - Organization with 46 member countries. Includes film news, festival reports, and resources on film criticism.
- Multiple Voices in Feminist Film Criticism - Description of a book that offers a comprehensive survey of the work done in the discipline over the last two decades.
- The Film Journal - The Film Journal is an online film quarterly that encourages and engages passionate and informed criticism of classic and contemporary world cinema, largely from an auteurist perspective.
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- Reader-response criticism - In literary criticism reader-response criticism focuses on the reader or audience, and modern concepts like Bertolt Brecht's alienation-effect or the Russian Formalists' "defamiliarization" or "cultural criticism" all predicate things about the experience of literature. One could argue that literary theory always involves a model of the literary experience, even if ...
- Semiotic literary criticism - Semiotic literary criticism, also called literary semiotics, is the approach to literary criticism informed by the theory of signs or semiotics. Semiotics, tied closely to the structuralism pioneered by Ferdinand de Saussure, was extremely influential in the development of literary theory out of the formalist approaches of the early twentieth century.
- Rudy Franchi - Rudy Franchi (born in New York City, April 21, 1939) is a writer and editor on film theory and film criticism and an antiques and collectibles expert. As a film theory and film criticism writer, he helped to introduce the French film theory of "auteur theory" to the US.
- List of basic critical theory topics - In the humanities and social sciences, critical theory has two quite different meanings with different origins and histories, one originating in social theory and the other in literary criticism. The former is theory oriented toward critiquing and changing society as a whole, in contrast to traditional theory oriented only to understanding or explaining it.
- Film criticism - Film criticism is the analysis and evaluation of films, individually and collectively. In general, this can be divided into journalistic criticism that appears regularly in newspapers and other popular, mass-media outlets and academic criticism by film scholars that is informed by film theory and published in journals.