Adrian, your reference to Albert Brooks, 'terrific
filmmaker,' is
tantalisingly cinephiliac. As is the idea of Burch's and
Sellier's critique
of the culture of cinephilia. I too would love to learn
more about this
critique. I notice no one has responded to your request for
enlightenment so I'll renew it.
It is hardly a new phenomenon but I have read quite
a few articles and literary essays on bibliophilia lately - variously,
predictably nostalgic, elegaic, resigned, culturally panicked or worried about
the novel. It seems people mostly watch fiction and read non fiction. Apart from
one by David Foster Wallace, the pieces were not great advertisements for
literary culture. Nearly all use the banal argument and treat cinephilia (and
telephilia) as at best a love flawed by addiction, banality and triviality. But
I would like to read a more thoughtful, less off the shelf critique, one
that is self-critique for cinephiles
Ross
