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

What role does love—of cinema, of cinema studies, of teaching and learning—play in teaching film?

For the Love of Cinema brings 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.