Love in the Time of Cinema - by K McKim Hardcover

Book Synopsis

Kristi McKim offers close-analyses of films in which attachment and detachment, intimacy and distance, ephemera and endurance become more visible and meaningful. Films discussed include Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire, Agnès Varda's Jacquot de Nantes, Doris Dörrie's Cherry Blossoms and Olivier Assayas' Summer Hours.

Review Quotes

'Kristi McKim is a keen, imaginative and moving analyst of texts both cinematic and theoretical and she writes in a powerfully evocative and poetic style that is nonetheless precise and rigorous. Her analyses of an international array of films are superlative. This is theoretical and critical work of the highest order, a highly original work of cinema studies and in particular of the representation of time and love in the cinema.'

- Matthew H. Bernstein, Emory University, USA

About the Author

KRISTI MCKIM is Assistant Professor of English and Chair of the Film Studies program at Hendrix College, USA. She has published in leading international journals including Camera Obscura, Studies in French Cinema, Film-Philosophy, Film Quarterly and Film International.