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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457586903321

Autore

Keathley Christian

Titolo

Cinephilia and history, or, The wind in the trees [[electronic resource] /] / Christian Keathley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2006

ISBN

0-253-11147-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Disciplina

791.43/09

Soggetti

Motion pictures

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

1. The desire for cinema -- 2. The cinephiliac moment and panoramic perception -- 3. André Bazin and the revelatory potential of cinema -- 4. Cahiers du cinéma and the way of looking -- 5. Film and the limits of history -- 6. A cinephiliac history -- 7. Five cinephiliac anecdotes.

Sommario/riassunto

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