Phebe – The culture of criticism, more powerful than the “cancel culture”

Longtemps, Erich Hatala Matthes’ favorite film was Love and death (1975),

a Woody Allen, however rather minor in view of the brilliant career of its author. But in recent years, this associate professor of philosophy at Wellesley College (Massachusetts) admits to having been troubled by accusations of sexual abuse leveled against the American director, which the latter denies. A troubled, uncertain feelings of “confusion, nostalgia, anger and betrayal”, which feed Drawing the Line. What to Do with the Work of Immoral Artists from Museums to the Movies, the book he has just published on how our knowledge of the life of an artist can disturb or affect our reception of his work.