TY - JOUR

T1 - Critical Emotions

T2 - Cultural Criticism as an Intrinsically Emotional Type of Journalism

AU - Kristensen, Nete Nørgaard

N1 - Funding Information: I would like to thank the editors of the special issue and the anonymous reviewers for their very helpful comments. I would also like to thank film critic Christian Monggaard for his participation. Publisher Copyright: © 2021 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

PY - 2021

Y1 - 2021

N2 - This article engages with a part of journalism that has long been emotional but gained less scholarly attention in recent debates about journalism and emotion—cultural criticism and reviewing. The article argues that although emotions are not new to cultural reviewing, emotionality and a subjective style have become more important in recent decades due to media technological changes and changes in the organisation of news work. Taking its empirical point of departure in a qualitative content analysis of reviews by and an interview with Danish film critic Christian Monggaard, active since the late 1990s, the article shows that emotionality has long been part of his critical and stylistic approach but that emotional subjectivity—and personality—have become more visible over time in his work. The article contextualises the empirical study in research about aesthetic emotions, the subjectivity/objectivity nexus of cultural criticism and the changing institutional, technological and professional circumstances for the production of cultural criticism in the news media.

AB - This article engages with a part of journalism that has long been emotional but gained less scholarly attention in recent debates about journalism and emotion—cultural criticism and reviewing. The article argues that although emotions are not new to cultural reviewing, emotionality and a subjective style have become more important in recent decades due to media technological changes and changes in the organisation of news work. Taking its empirical point of departure in a qualitative content analysis of reviews by and an interview with Danish film critic Christian Monggaard, active since the late 1990s, the article shows that emotionality has long been part of his critical and stylistic approach but that emotional subjectivity—and personality—have become more visible over time in his work. The article contextualises the empirical study in research about aesthetic emotions, the subjectivity/objectivity nexus of cultural criticism and the changing institutional, technological and professional circumstances for the production of cultural criticism in the news media.

KW - Cultural journalism

KW - cultural reviews

KW - emotion

KW - film criticism

KW - precarity

KW - subjectivity

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85119524816&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1080/1461670X.2021.1910544

DO - 10.1080/1461670X.2021.1910544

M3 - Journal article

AN - SCOPUS:85119524816

VL - 22

SP - 1590

EP - 1607

JO - Journalism Studies

JF - Journalism Studies

SN - 1461-670X

IS - 12

ER -