![]() ![]() Keathley All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Indiana University Press 601 North Morton Street Bloomington, IN 47404-3797 USA Telephone orders 80 Fax orders 81 Orders by e-mail © 2006 by Christian M. Indiana University Press bloomington and indianapolis INDIANA Cover photo: from Jules et Jim (1962). University Press Bloomington & Indianapolis RayĬhristian Keathley is Assistant Professor in the Film and Media Culture Program at Middlebury College, Vermont. While lm theory has oen lled in that blank with pejoratives (buffism, fandom), Christian Keathley’s thrilling book redenes cinephilia as the energy source for writing and thinking about the movies, a means of discovering what André Bazin found central to lmmaking’s richest tradition.” -Robert B. Keathley explores the implications of this ontology and proposes the “cinephiliac anecdote” as a new type of criticism, a method of historical writing that both imitates and extends the experience of these fugitive moments.Ĭinephilia and History, or The Wind in the Trees Christian Keathley demonstrates that the spectatorial tendency that produces such cinematic encounters-a viewing practice marked by a dri in visual attention away from the primary visual elements on display-in fact has clear links to the origins of lm as dened by André Bazin, Roland Barthes, and others. ![]() I was especially intrigued by the audacious treatment of André Bazin as a proto-surrealist.” -Jonathan Rosenbaum Cinephiles have regularly fetishized contingent, marginal details in the motion picture image: the gesture of a hand, the wind in the trees. Christian Keathley takes it seriously enough to examine certain aspects of it in detail, and Cinephilia and History, or e Wind in the Trees offers a lively and creative approach to the subject. “e pleasure of cinephilia tends to be both frowned upon and neglected in academic lm studies. CHRISTIAN KEATHLEY “An old-fashioned SAT analogy question might once have looked like this: Cinephilia is to lm as _ is to any other object of study (e.g., literature, physics). ![]()
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