Dear list members, I am currently preparing a seminar on >Love and intimacy in the movies< due to take place next summer. While I am aware of a vast range of literature on sexuality in the cinema, it seems difficult to find anything on _Love_. Not a popular topic for scholarship, I suppose, although it is very popular in the movies. Anyways, the seminar will be based on the historical analysis of the semantics of love by german sociologist Niklas Luhmann, but I am still looking for suggestions along the following lines: - literature (books, essays) from film studies that deal with the topic of love not in a purely generic perspective (e.g. "love" as part of melodrama, like in Mary Ann Doanes book on women's movies); I am aware of a couple of essays by Robin Wood on Before Sunrise, by Masud Zavarzadeh on the ideology of love and intimacy, by Thomas Wartenberg's book on Unlikely Couples, but I did not find much more yet. I am also looking for essays who pay attention to the importance of love in the work of particular directors/films like Antonioni, Truffaut's Antoine Doinel-films, etc. - eminent literary, philosophical, etc. works on the topic of love (like Martha Nussbaum's _Love's Knowledge_, Roland Barthes' book an love in Werther, Julia Kristeva's book on the histories of love, etc.) - there might still be some interesting literature around that I missed. - last but not least I am looking for suggestions of important films as far as the topic is concerned: films that deal with love in a particular way, films that develop a certain - even philosophical - idea of love, films that present 'non-hegemonic' relationships (e.g. homosexual relationships, relationships between adults and children, pseudo-relationships from afar between fan/star, etc.) as an alternative to hegemonic ideas of love, or films that, on the contrary, seem to be emblematic for society's predominant ideas about love and intimacy (at least in a certain historical period). I am also looking for interesting documentary (like Pasolini's Comizi D'Amore) and maybe even avantgarde/experimental films that deal with the topic of love. Right now any suggestions are very welcome. And thank you very much to anyone who is giving it a thought. Thomas Morsch Film Dept. Freie Universitaet Berlin Germany ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html