Acknowledgements
Introduction: Inventing Cinephiliac Historiography
1. Sonic Booms: 1929 and the Sensational Transition to Sound
2. Show Stoppers: 1937 and the Chance Encounter with Chiffons
3. Signature Crimes: 1946 and the Strange Case of the Lost Scene
(as Well as the Stranger Case of the Missing Auteur)
4. Apocalyptic Antennae: 1954 and the End of Storytelling
Conclusion: The Cinephiliac Return
Notes
Bibliography
Index
An innovative approach to the studio system and its films
Rashna Wadia Richards is Associate Professor and T. K. Young Chair of English at Rhodes College.
Rashan Wadia Richards's Cinematic Flashes: Cinephilia and Classical
Hollywood both treats and is itself the product of the author's
cinephilia, that fervent, devotional, sometimes rabid love for
movies once professed by critics such as Susan Sontag and the New
Wave devotees of Cahiers du cinema. As Richards traces, this
cinephiliac passion was to be suppressed by the sober film
theorists of the 1970s, who argues the necessity of destroying
cinematic pleasure in order to understand its mechanisms. In recent
years, cinephilia has experienced something of a revival, due no
doubt to the technological tools that have enabled a new generation
of scholars and critics to access vast archives of film
material.10th October 2013
*Times Literary Supplement*
[S]ophisitcated readers will be rewarded with a fresh take on a
familiar subject. . . . Recommended.
*Choice*
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