Anxious Cinephilia - Pleasure and Peril At the Movies

The advent of new screening practices and viewing habits in the twenty-first century has spurred debate over what it means to be a ¿cinephile.¿ Sarah Keller places these competing visions in historical and theoretical perspective, tracing how the love of movies intertwines with anxieties over the content and impermanence of cinematic images.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Ardor and Anxiety: The History of Cinephilia
2. Enchanting Images
3. Cinephilia and Technology: Anxieties and Obsolescence
4. The Exquisite Apocalypse
Conclusion: Anxious Times, Anxious Cinema
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

About the author

Sarah Keller is associate professor of art and cinema studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She is the author of Maya Deren: Incomplete Control (Columbia, 2014) and the coeditor of Jean Epstein: Critical Essays and New Translations (2012).

Summary

The advent of new screening practices and viewing habits in the twenty-first century has spurred debate over what it means to be a “cinephile.” Sarah Keller places these competing visions in historical and theoretical perspective, tracing how the love of movies intertwines with anxieties over the content and impermanence of cinematic images.

Additional text

Anxious Cinephilia provides a great departure point for readers to formulate their own cinephilic inquiries.

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Keller, Sarah (Assistant Professor of English and Keller, Sarah (Assistant Professor of English and Cinema Studies Keller, Keller Sarah
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9780231180863
• ISBN: 978-0-231-18086-3
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Film and Culture Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science; art, Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, ART / Film & Video, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Electronic, holographic & video art, Film Theory & Criticism, Digital, video and new media arts, Film history, theory or criticism