Cinephilia. Movies, Love and Memory
* pb ‘Cinephilia’ 07-06-2005 11:02 Pagina 1 The anthology Cinephilia: Movies, Love and Memory explores new periods, practices and definitions of what it means to love the cinema. [EDS.] AND HAGENER CINEPHILIA DE VALCK The essays demonstrate that beyond individu- FILM FILM alist immersion in film, typical of the cinephilia as it was popular from the 1950s to the 1970s, CULTURE CULTURE a new type of cinephilia has emerged since the IN TRANSITION IN TRANSITION 1980s, practiced by a new generation of equally devoted, but quite differently networked cine- philes. The film lover of today embraces and uses new technology while also nostalgically remembering and caring for outdated media for- mats. He is a hunter-collector as much as a mer- chant-trader, a duped consumer as much as a media-savvy producer. Marijke de Valck is a PhD candidate at the Department of Media Studies, Uni- versity of Amsterdam. Malte Hagener teaches Film and Media Studies at CinephiliaCinephilia the Department of Media Studies at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. Movies,Movies, LoveLove andand MemoryMemory ISBN 90-5356-768-2 EDITEDEDITED BY BY MARIJKEMARIJKE DE DE VALCK VALCK MALTEMALTE HAGENER HAGENER 9 789053 567685 Amsterdam University Press AmsterdamAmsterdam UniversityUniversity PressPress WWW.AUP.NL Cinephilia Cinephilia Movies, Love and Memory Edited by Marijke de Valck and Malte Hagener Amsterdam University Press Cover design: Kok Korpershoek, Amsterdam Lay-out: japes, Amsterdam isbn 90 5356 768 2 (paperback) isbn 90 5356 769 0 (hardcover) nur 674 © Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam 2005 All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this book may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without the written permission of both the copyright owner and the author of the book.
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