A Theorical Review (Thorough or Not) to the Discussion of the “Death of Cinema” in the Contemporary Cinema

Abstract

In the current climate of the film studies, the subject about the «death of cinema» appear as a discussion with apocalyptic signs and deeply nostalgic. Something that appear to belong to only to the last decade of 20th Century –with necessary projections and relapse to the first decade of 21st century and 1980s respectively–. But, it was a discussion that convened strong views and discursive devices stylized, that tried understand processes complex about: the cinematic nature, the changes of the cultural consumption, the aesthetics and discursive transformations, the burst in of new kind of understand of the cinema, etc. In this sense, we wish to emphasize that this topic has been a reflexive motor that expanded the frontiers of the film theory itself.