Sensing an Intellectual Nemesis‪.‬

The period of grand theory, which saw film studies secure its position as an academic discipline, was marked by a cinephobia that resulted in film academics seeing as their responsibility the systematic undermining and exposure of virtually all of the most basic cinematic pleasures--this in spite of the fact that the majority of these academics were devout cinephiles. --Christian Keathley, Cinephilia and History (134-135)