Love in the Time of Cinema

This book offers close analyses of films in which attachment and detachment, intimacy and distance, ephemera and endurance—all components of cinematic time and love—might become more visible and meaningful. Love in the Time of Cinema studies theories of time (as history, narrative, modernity and mortality), love (as romance, cinephilia and photogénie), and film (in terms of close-ups, genre, and spectatorship). Including chapters on Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire, Agnès Varda's Jacquot de Nantes and The Beaches of Agnès, Hirokazu Kore-eda's After Life and Still Walking, Doris Dörrie's Cherry Blossoms, and Olivier Assayas's Summer Hours, this book illustrates how both love and cinema enliven familiar forms, heighten our attention, and teach us to learn to love what passes and find meaning in what endures.

• Kristi McKim

• Literary and Cultural Studies
• Media Studies

• School of Literature, Media, and Communication