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.

"For the Love of Cinema is an innovative collection that brings important new discussion to academic film scholarship on several fronts. . . . This volume is not just another manual of how to teach film studies (there are plenty of those), but how to bring a certain attitude or demeanor to the practice for the purpose of stimulating student engagement and enrichment. The collection focuses on the act of teaching, both conceptually and practically, which is something that no introductory text on teaching film studies that I know of has adequately addressed."—Christian Keathley, author of Cinephilia and History, or The Wind in the Trees"While there have been many recent books on the topic of cinephilia, per se, this is the first one, to my knowledge, to address the subject within a pedagogical framework—examining how a teacher's own love of cinema may be transferred to students raised in a younger generation with entirely different ways of experiencing moving images."—Lucy Fischer, author of Designing Women: Cinema, Art Deco and The Female Form

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Love and Teaching, Love and Film / Rashna Wadia Richards and David T. Johnson Part 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