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title: 'Susan Sontag'
type: 'critic-profile'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/critics/susan-sontag'
updated: '2026-07-31'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Susan Sontag

A critic followed by the CinePixo community. This is a profile, not a byline:
Susan Sontag does not write for CinePixo, and no opinion on this site
should be attributed to this critic.

## About

Essayist and novelist whose 'Against Interpretation' (1964) handed criticism a dare it still hasn't fully taken: stop melting art down to its themes and describe what is actually there — 'in place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.' Her film writing, from Bresson to science fiction ('The Imagination of Disaster'), treats style as substance and remains the sharpest antidote to message-hunting.

## Elsewhere

- [Against Interpretation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against_Interpretation)

## Photograph

Photo: Lynn Gilbert · CC BY-SA 4.0 · https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Susan_Sontag_1979_%C2%A9Lynn_Gilbert_(headshot).jpg

Source: https://cinepixo.com/critics/susan-sontag
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