Cinephilia and History, or The Wind in the Trees by Christian Keathley. Indiana University Press, 2006

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Steven Dillon is a Professor in English Department of Bates College, Lewiston, Maine, and is the author of the books Derek Jarman and Lyric Film: The Mirror and the Sea (2004) and The Solaris Effect: Art and Artifice in Contemporary American Film (2006).

Notes

1. Stephen Greenblatt, Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England (Berkeley: University of California, 1988), 1.

2. The phrase “return to cinephilia” comes from a section title in the anthology Critique et Cinéphilie (ed. Antoine de Baecque [Paris: Cahiers du cinéma, 2001]), a survey of topics related to cinephilia in Cahiers du cinéma from Bazin to the present. Keathley omits this text from an otherwise very solid bibliography.

3. Serge Daney, Ciné I: 1981–1982 (Paris: Cahiers du cinéma, 1998); Ciné II: 1983–1986 (1998).

4. I elaborate this description of Daney's criticism in “Mulholland Drive, Cahiers du cinéma, and the Horror of Cinephilia,” The Solaris Effect (Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 2006), 97–103.