Film criticism is a dying field. Literally. The great and influential critic (and painter and college professor) Manny Farber died on Sunday at the age of 91. From the late '40s to the early '70s, Farber wrote film and arts criticism for such publications as The New Republic, Time, and Artforum, and his collection of reviews and essays, Negative Space: Manny Farber On The Movies, had an enormous impact on the next generation of film critics. Farber was most famous for penning an essay called "White Elephant Art vs. Termite Art" for Film Culture magazine in 1962; in a film world where bloated, self-important visions (i.e. "White Elephant Art") was favored over less pretentious, less ostentatious B-movies and genre films (i.e. "Termite Art"), Farber helped reverse critical thinking and championed many worthy underdogs.