Cinephilia has recently experienced a powerful resurgence, one enabled by new media technologies of the digital age. Today’s “new cinephilia” shares with the cinephilia of the 1950s a robust sociability which these new technologies have facilitated. Cinephilic practice today—viewing, thinking, reading and writing about films—is marked by an unprecedented amount of social interaction, made possible by dramatically lower economic barriers to publication through the internet, giving rise to new hybrid forms and outlets of cinephilic writing that draw freely from scholarly, journalistic and literary models. Published by caboose books, Montreal. Distributed worldwide, excluding Canada, by Rutgers University Press.

The New Cinephilia (Kino-Agora)

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Shambu, Girish

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Cinephilia has recently experienced a powerful resurgence, one enabled by new media technologies of the digital revolution. One strong continuity between today's "new cinephilia" and the classical cinephilia of the 1950s is the robust sociability which these new technologies have facilitated. Each activity of today's cinephilic practice – viewing, thinking, reading and writing about films – is marked by an unprecedented amount of social interaction facilitated by the Internet. As with their classical counterparts, the thoughts and writings of today's cinephiles are born from a vigorous and broad-ranging cinephilic conversation. Further, by dramatically lowering the economic barriers to publication, the Internet has also made possible new hybrid forms and outlets of cinephilic writing that draw freely from scholarly, journalistic and literary models. This book both describes and theorises how and where cinephilia lives and thrives today. In this expanded second edition, the author revisits some of his original ideas and calls into question the focus in cinephilia on the male canon in the wake of the #MeToo movement and the lack of racial and gender diversity in contemporary cinema. "There is more to the cinephile experience than simply surfing from one link to another in a state of perpetual motion. How does this movement – this daily proliferation of encounters – power one's cinephilia? What special affective charge does this experience hold? In other words, how is the experience of the Internet cinephile affectively different from that of a 'traditional' cinephile who spends little time online?" ― Girish Shambu

The New Cinephilia

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The New Cinephilia (Kino-Agora)

The New Cinephilia