Anxious Cinephilia: Pleasure and Peril at the Movies

by Sarah Keller

Book Overview

The advent of new screening practices and viewing habits in the twenty-first century has spurred a public debate over what it means to be a "cinephile." In Anxious Cinephilia, 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.

Keller reframes the history of cinephilia from the earliest...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 023118087X
• ISBN13: 9780231180870
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"