A journey to discover new ways of seeing cinema. This is what Francesco Casetti, professor of Filmology at the Catholic University, proposes, starting from the short film by Atmom Egoyan Artaud double Bill.
Casetti focuses his attention on the most significant changes compared to the classic vision in the theater that concern the object of the vision, the way of the vision and the place of the vision. In particular, this last aspect becomes an opportunity to reveal the great diffusion of screens both in private life and in public places.
Is there still room for cinema in a screen city - that offers a multiplicity of spaces, real, narrated or virtual - or in a society full of "objects", from the cell phone to the DVD, capable of hosting film experiences? From Egoyan's film a possible answer.
Francesco Casetti, in recent years has taught at Yale. His interests concern communication strategies and forms of social impact of audiovisual media, in particular cinema and television. He boasts an extensive bibliography with titles such as Inside the Gaze. The Film and Its Spectator (Bompiani, 1986), Theories of Cinema. 1945-1990 (Bompiani, 1993), The Eye of the Twentieth Century. Cinema, Experience, Modernity (Bompiani, 2006), all translated into several foreign languages. Among his latest publications: Italian Spectators. Rites and Environments of Film Consumption. 1900-1950 with Elena Mosconi and Unknown Lands. The Italian Spectator and the New Forms of Film Viewing Experience, with Mariagrazi Fanchi (Carocci, 2006), on the historical and current forms of cinema consumption in Italy.
