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Film Studies in Digital PostModern EraKeyan Tomaselli1

  

  • Received:2018-09-10 Online:2019-03-15 Published:2019-03-15

Abstract: Abstract: Interdisciplinary nature characterizes the postindustrial, postmodern, postdisciplinary intellectual environment. With the virtual and augmented technological development, the certainties offered by the traditional normative theories in the 20th century are lost in the new millennium world that appears to be no longer fully grounded on modernist assumptions or even material reality. It is of critical importance to know about disciplinary epistemologies, disciplinary histories and the paradigmatic evolution of film theories across different periods, contexts and conditions. This article critically examines some of these issues by applying the framework of "langue" (structure, form, schools, etc.) and "parole" (accent, style, anecdotes, etc.) as the major approach and analyzes "theme" ("langue" in the disciplinary sense) and "topic" ("parole" in the nondisciplinary sense)accordingly. Contrary to the modernistic and industrial teaching mode adopted by many current film academies, film textbased postmodernistic teaching mode refuses to take film theories as the explanatory framework. In addition, digital story telling approach attempts to remap the "langue" and "parole" scene by letting the "specactors" have the virtual, interactive experience.

Key words: film theories, parole,  film studies, langue, digital postmodern era