/lit/ - Literature

>>18747632
And yet I would've guessed that you're simply delusional because of your upper middle class isolation (though I'd hate to imply that isolation was a result of your station rather than your repellant personality.) Sincere congratulations on avoiding those pitfalls.

>>18481133
Pretentious 'I see things as the are, dispassionately, truthfully, tersely' bullshit. Thanks for the heads up; good looking out.

>>18466167
It takes years of dedication and patience to become familiar with an author. Any asshole can watch the entire works of George Lucas in a weekend--so a wider audience of lazy autodidacts who think they're experts. There is a lot of that here, too, but usually about philosophy (which funnily enough can be gleaned from online articles and YouTube videos etc.)

Nonetheless, you're describing vague descriptors such as "harsh critiques," "in depth stuff" and "fresh takes" as if those qualities alone make their content more valuable or meaningful (it doesn't.)

Besides that, literary and Art theory have been around for literally thousands of years and that aesthetic groundwork is the basis for most if not all means of analysing films. For example, David Bordwell (whether people know it or not) laid a lot of the groundwork for modern American analysis of film. Bordwell derived most of his methods from early 20th century formalist literary technique. A lot of the methods you see applied by postmodern or psychoanalytic accounts (from Mulvey to Zizek) come from the likes of Lacan or Derrida who themselves mostly wrote about literature when applying their theories to art. Another major trend, Bazin and cahiers du cinema, called their most well-known and widely adopted theory the auteur theory named after filmmakers they compared to literary authors, going so far as calling these directors' camera's camera-stylo (camera pens.)

Online self-masturbation to film fandom is more prevalent and pitched at a higher volume but it almost entirely relies on literary theory at its base (mostly unwittingly) and doesn't come close in maturity or autonomy to the better literay theory.