“I suspect cinephilia has always had something to do with difference…But often alienation is an identity experience for movie lovers, not just a theme for art films. Film geeks, who have become almost mainstream, have tended to feel like social outsiders, which perhaps suggests their proclivities for sci-fi set in other worlds…Videophilia has become a lifeline for millions of people who don’t belong. ——Lucas Hilderbrand, Cinematic Promiscuity: Cinephilia after Videophilia”