Нашла метакритическое эссе Studing Cinema киноведа Дэвида Бордвелла, которое непосредственным образом касается принципов, принятых в ilovecinema. Бордвелл разрабатывает типологию подходов к обсуждению кино — от обычного к фанатскому и академическому дискурсу.
Film studies, it seems to me, is an effort to understand films and the processes through which they’re made and consumed. Film scholars mount explanations for why films are the way they are, why they were made the way they were, why they are consumed the way they are. <…>I think that film studies is best defined as a process of posing and trying to answer questions. Most ordinary conversation about films serves other purposes—to share information, to have social exchanges with people, to learn more about others’ tastes. Film studies certainly has these aims too, but like other academic disciplines, it seeks to answer questions in a systematic way, one that is open to discussion and criticism. So film studies centers on certain sorts of questions: those that require explanations as answers.