Collecting films ? Cinephilia between passion and predation

Abstract

Based on a varied corpus of French authors placing their filmic preferences at the very principle of their creation, this article questions some forms of cinephilia observed in contemporary writers and more particularly questions the approach consisting of collecting all or part of certain elected films. It will show that such a practice is part of a broader phenomenon of spectatorial appropriation characteristic of our time and our new ways of viewing films which come into conflict with the system of the cinema screening, but it will also show how it inspires singular forms of writing articulating the intimate with the collective by reflecting on the trace that films leave in our lives