I Film Studies tra antiche domande e nuove prospettive

Globalization, new media and the computerization of culture have outlined new landscapes and undermined notions and categories of interpretation both inside and outside Film Studies. The theoretical definition of film has become even more problematic: film today is "diasporic", migrant and hybrid, reproducing the destiny of the world. Film Studies over the past 20 years has moved in two directions characterized by a "heuristic of rethinking". On the one hand, Film Studies looks ahead and asks new questions (Cognitive Film Theory, Neurocinematics etc.). On the other, it looks backwards, reading both the theory and history of cinema in the light of a different conceptualization of cinema, (New Historicism, New Cultural Studies etc.) or increasing the importance given to memory (preservation, philology, restoration, neo-cinephilia in the age of the web). In the past we asked «Qu'est-ce que le cinéma?», but today the questions have become: Where is cinema? Has cinema always been what it is today?