Cinephilia and history, or, The wind in the trees / Christian Keathley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keathley, Christian.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Cinephilia and history

Wind in the trees

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Cinephilia and History, or The Wind in the Trees is in part a history of cinephilia, in part an attempt to recapture the spirit of cinephilia for the discipline of film studies, and in part an experiment in cinephilic writing.Cinephiles have regularly fetishized contingent, marginal details in the motion picture image: the gesture of a hand, the wind in the trees. Christian Keathley demonstrates that the spectatorial tendency that produces such cinematic encounters -- a viewing practice marked b

Contents:

1. The desire for cinema

2. The cinephiliac moment and panoramic perception

3. Andre Bazin and the revelatory potential of cinema

4. Cahiers du cinema and the way of looking

5. Film and the limits of history

6. A cinephiliac history

7. Five cinephiliac anecdotes.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-207) and index.

ISBN:

0-253-11147-1

OCLC:

475995034