Traces of cinephilia on Facebook

La mia tesi approfondisce le dinamiche della cinefilia su Facebook: quali relazioni s'instaurano tra lo spettatore cinefilo, e dunque il suo particolare sguardo, e la moltitudine di frammenti di cinema dispersi nella rete; come si sono modificati i rapporti, gli atteggiamenti, i processi di negoziazione, le abitudini e soprattutto i discorsi dei cinefili al cospetto di tracce di cinema sui social network e in particolare su Facebook. Inoltreprovo a dimostrare che la cinefilia è un'esperienza costitutivamente autobiografica, cui il web permette il perpetuare potenzialmente infinito della (auto)narrazione di sé.My thesis aims at analyzing the relations that occur between the cinephile member of the audience and the multitude of cinema fragments that populate the web. In addition, I'll investigate the way in which relationships, behaviors, processes of negotiation, and habits of cinephiles have been modified by the encounter with on-line cinema traces: the definition of the various typologies of classic/traditional cinephile behaviors; the mapping of the contemporary on-line behaviors of cinephilia: status updates, video uploads, creation of fan-pages and of bottom-up groups, etc; creation of fan-groups and of groups with the purpose of advertising Festivals and studios; diffusion of reviews and usage of one’s own “wall” to publicize personal reviews, etc. The massive development of the systems of on-line social networking highlight the emergence of new and ambiguous figures of cinephiles. Whilst these contemporary figures maintain some characteristics deriving from the evolution of classic cinephilia, on the other hand they show completely original typologies of experience, socialization and taste. The web, and in particular the programs of video sharing and the social networks, feed and trigger the characteristics of classic cinephilia, amplifying its consequences: the unity of the film-text has been definitively compromised, for cinephilia can now overcome the boundaries of the dark élite-oriented cinema halls. A one and a half hours long movie can now be watched in pieces, it can be arbitrarily reconstructed, its scenes can be shared on YouTube according to one’s taste and preferences, it can be preliminarily evaluated by having watched nothing but a fragment of it being shared by a friend on Facebook, whereas the varieties of video shared by a friend on Facebook can help one understanding that friend. In the study of contemporary culture, cinephilia helps understanding some of the internet-related phenomena, such as video sharing websites and social networks