Cinephilia

Cinephilia is the term used to refer to a passionate interest in cinema, film theory and film criticism. The term is a portmanteau of the words cinema and philia, one of the four ancient Greek words for love. A person with a passionate interest in cinema is called a cinephile or cinemaphile.

In English, it is sometimes used interchangeably with the French word cinéaste, though in the original French the term refers to a cinephile who is also a filmmaker.

Definition

In a review of a book on the history of cinephilia, Mas Generis writes: Cinephilia, is the condition of a sexual attraction to movies. Generis also introduces a quote from film scholar Annette Michelson that states that there is, No one such thing as cinephilia, but rather forms and periods of cinephilia. As described by Antoine de Baecque and Thierry Fremaux, The definitive essence of cinephila is a culture of the discarded that prefers to find intellectual coherence where none is evident and to eulogize the non-standard and the minor.

Cinephile (band)

Kenny Inglis and Susan Wallace are the duo behind Cinephile, a trip hop band from Glasgow famous for the song "What Becomes of Us ?" which was played during an episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.

Cinephile's music has been used in a number of TV shows and films around the globe.

Their song 'Comatose' was used in the trailer for the Samuel L. Jackson thriller 'Lakeview Terrace'.

The band collaborated with Christopher Cazenove (Dynasty, 3 Men and a Little Lady, A Knight's Tale) on the narrative track "Cinephile".

The band collaborated with Jarkko Lehmus of Scottish Ballet scoring for his choreographic piece 'A Daily Bread'.

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Cinephile (disambiguation)

Cinephile may refer to: