For the Love of Cinema

Rashna Wadia Richards is Associate Professor and T. K. Young Chair of English at Rhodes College. She is author of Cinematic Flashes: Cinephilia and Classical Hollywood (IUP).David T. Johnson is Associate Professor of English at Salisbury University. He is author of Richard Linklater and past coeditor of the journal Literature/Film Quarterly.

What role does love--of cinema, of cinema studies, of teaching and learning--play in teaching film? For the Love of Cinema brings together a wide range of film scholars to explore the relationship between cinephilia and pedagogy. All of them ask whether cine-love can inform the serious study of cinema. Chapter by chapter, writers approach this question from various perspectives: some draw on aspects of students' love of cinema as a starting point for rethinking familiar films or generating new kinds of analyses about the medium itself; others reflect on how their own cinephilia informs the way they teach cinema; and still others offer new ways of writing (both verbally and audiovisually) with a love of cinema in the age of new media. Together, they form a collection that is as much a guide for teaching cinephilia as it is an energetic dialogue about the ways that cinephilia and pedagogy enliven and rejuvenate one another.

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Love and Teaching, Love and Film / Rashna Wadia Richards and David T. JohnsonPart 1: Theorizing Cinephilia and Pedagogy1. Cinephilia as a Method / Robert B. Ray2. Passionate Attachments / Amelie Hastie3. Cinephilia and Cineliteracy in the Classroom / Thomas Leitch4. Nearing the Heart of a Film: Toward a Cinephilic Pedagogy / Tracy Cox-Stanton5. Movies in the Middle: Cinephilia as Lines of Becoming / Kalling Heck6. Audiovisual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema / Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian MartinPart 2: Practicing Cinephilia and Pedagogy7. Teaching Film Nonfictionally: The Reciprocity of Pedagogy, Cinephilia, and Maternity / Kristi McKim8. Loving Performance: Cinephilia, Teaching, and the Stars / Steven Rybin9. Go to the Movies!: Cinephilia, Exhibition, and the Cinema Studies Classroom / Allison Whitney10. Cinephilia and Paratexts: DVD Pedagogy in the Era of Instant Streaming / Lisa Patti11. Lessons of Birth and Death: The Past, Present, and Future of Cinephilia in Martin Scorsese's Hugo (2011) / Andrew Utterson12. Cinephilia and Philosophia: Or, Why I Don't Show The Matrix in Philosophy 101 /Timothy YenterSelected BibliographyIndex