James Chandler

Not only an accessible hands-on guide to writing criticism across the literary arts, the dramatic arts, and the narrative screen arts, but also a book that makes a case for how and why criticism matters today. Doing Criticism: Across Literary and Screen Arts is a practical guide to engaging actively and productively with a critical object, whether a film, a...

Irony and satire in the contemporary American moment. The second Trump administration has committed itself to upending the knowledge systems and deliberative institutions essential to modern democracy, with the American university—site of scientific research and liberal education—a primary target. In The Know-Nothing Campaign Against Higher Learning, literary and film critic James Chandler spotlights an American tradition of hostility to intellectual...