For the Love of Cinema: Teaching Our Passion In and Outside the Classroom [Hardcover]

What role does loveof cinema, of cinema studies, of teaching and learningplay in teaching film?For the Love of Cinemabrings 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.

Rashna Wadia Richards is Associate Professor and T. K. Young Chair of English at Rhodes College. She is author ofCinematic Flashes: Cinephilia and Classical Hollywood(IUP).

David T. Johnson is Associate Professor of English at Salisbury University. He is author ofRichard Linklaterand past coeditor of the journalLiterature/Film Quarterly.

Cristina ?lvarez L?pez is a critic and audiovisual artist. She is the co-founder of the Spanish online film journalTransit: Cine y otros desv?os. Her essays have appeared inFandor Keyframe,MUBI Notebook,LOLA, La Fuga,andDe Filmkrantand in books on Chantal Akerman, Bong Joon-Ho, Philippe Garrel, and Paul Schrader.

Tracy Cox-Stanton is Professor of Cinema Studies at Savannah College of Art and Design. She is the founder and editor of the online journalThe Cine-Files. She has published essays inCamera Obscura,Spectator,Visual Arts Research, andCritical Essays on Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley