Critic Anderson Defends Star Studies Against AI

Melissa Anderson, lead critic at 4Columns, published The Hunger: Film Writing 2012–2024 at the end of last year, collecting essays that advocate an 'acteurist' mode of star studies centered on embodied readings of performers. She argues such readings remain uniquely human, warns that generative AI and digital replicas threaten actors' corporeal significance, and urges critics to preserve embodied-performance analysis as a defense of human art-making.