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Article: Movie Mutations: the Changing Face of World Cinephilia.(Book Review)
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- December 22, 2004
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Movie Mutations: The Changing Face of World Cinephilia
Edited by Jonathan Rosenbaum and Adrian Martin. London: British Film Institute. (Distributed in the U.S. by University of California Press), 2003. 196 pp. Hardcover: $65.00 and Paperback: $22.50
The concept of cinephilia has, in much of the Western world, become a sadly embattled one, undermined not only by the predominantly commercial mainstream cinema but also, more forebodingly, by many of those who consider themselves cinephiles (or once did) and now proclaim it a thing of the past. Jonathan Rosenbaum and Adrian Martin are unabashedly dedicated to the cinema, in all its breadth and depth, and ill ...