2025/02/21 by Kadritzke, Till
#FOS: Arts (arts #FOS: Languages and literature #history of arts #music) #performing arts
paper · doi:10.60949/5rr1-f748
Girish Shambu’s manifesto ‘For a New Cinephilia’ is a call to replace an older ‘love of cinema’, which universalises its own very specific and contingent history, with a new cinephilia sensitive to political inequalities. In this insight, I use Shambu’s framework to discuss the reception history of Barbara Loden’s film ‘Wanda’ (1970), which was recently rediscovered and is now valued as a feminist masterpiece. The case suggests the need to account for the situatedness of any value statement. Thus, the insight ends with a proposal for a situated notion of value—and a cautionary tale about simplistic celebrations of political re-evaluations.