1. Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Notes on Contributors viii
5. 1. Introduction 1
6. Part I: Contexts
7. 2. The Histogram and the List: The Director in British Film Criticism 11
8. 3. ‘The Director of the Film Is the Man Who Chiefly Matters’: How British Critics Invented the Auteur Theory 23
9. 4. The Mid-century Critic as Cultural Celebrity and Cinephile Role Model 39
10. 5. The Critics, the Commentariat and the Consensus 57
11. Part II: Critics
12. 6. Film Review: F. Maurice Speed and the Vanishing Audience 75
13. 7. The Making of C.A. Lejeune, Film Critic 93
14. 8. The Critic Entranced: Dilys Powell and the Voice of Film Criticism 109
15. 9. Raymond Durgnat and Films and Filming 123
16. 10. The British Film Critic in Action: An Insider’s Reflections 139
17. Part III: Publications
18. 11. Pulling Pictures to Pieces: Fans and Film Criticism in Picturegoer (1918–1940) 155
19. 12. ‘So Much More than TV Times’: Film Coverage in Radio Times and TVTimes 169
20. 13. The Monthly Film Bulletin vs Leslie Halliwell: Critical Discourses of the 1970s and 1980s 187
21. 14. The Critic-Turned-Filmmaker and the Time Out Film Section 203
22. 15. Jack Babuscio, Gay News and the Development of a Gay Film Criticism 221
23. General Index 237
24. Film Index 243