# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/j-hoberman
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:45:00.072Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/j-hoberman"
name: "J. Hoberman"
slug: "j-hoberman"
description: "James Lewis Hoberman is an American film critic, journalist, author and academic. He began working at The Village Voice in the 1970s, became a full-time staff writer in 1983, and was the newspaper's senior film critic from 1988 to 2012. In 1981, he coined the term \"vulgar modernism\" to describe the \"looney\" fringes of American popular culture."
tagline: "American film critic"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/J._Hoberman.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1948-03-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.301622666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://j-hoberman.com/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump