Cinephiles have regularly fetishized contingent marginal details in the motionpicture image the gesture of a hand the wind in the trees. This book is inpart a h... » 

Cinephiles have regularly fetishized contingent marginal details in the motionpicture image the gesture of a hand the wind in the trees. This book is inpart a history of cinephilia in part an attempt to recapture the spirit ofcinephilia for the discipline of film studies and in part an experiment incinephilic writing. «