Overview

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.

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``Girish Shambu is not only a cinephile but a collector, bringing in discussions from around the physical and digital world. While he has long been an essential resource on the web, with The New Cinephilia he has written a necessary, compelling and elegant book that takes stock of the state of cinephilia in the twenty-first century. Shambu shows that cinephilia is not a solitary activity but one that is defined by conversation, whether in person, through published texts, or across social media platforms. But most of all Shambu has written a plea for writing: for a new cinephilic and academic writing about film, a writing that is alive to the fascination of moments and to the insights of sustained reflection.''

''Girish Shambu is not only a cinephile but a collector, bringing in discussions from around the physical and digital world. While he has long been an essential resource on the web, with The New Cinephilia he has written a necessary, compelling and elegant book that takes stock of the state of cinephilia in the twenty-first century. Shambu shows that cinephilia is not a solitary activity but one that is defined by conversation, whether in person, through published texts, or across social media platforms. But most of all Shambu has written a plea for writing: for a new cinephilic and academic writing about film, a writing that is alive to the fascination of moments and to the insights of sustained reflection.''--Daniel Morgan University of Chicago

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Girish Shambu is an associate professor of management at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York. He has run his film blog, girish, since 2004. His writings have appeared in Framework, Film Quarterly, and Film Comment. He is editor of the Film Quarterly blog, QUORUM.

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