Definition
In a review of a book on the history of cinephilia, Mas Generis writes: "Cinephilia, despite its transparent etymological meaning - love of cinema - is a term that resists ready and shared understanding." 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."
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