ABSTRACT
In what at first appears a book review of Francesco Casetti’s The Lumière Galaxy: Seven Key Words for the Cinema to Come, Dudley Andrew’s paper provides an overview of the most general and crucial discussion that the post-cinema theme brings to the fore. Not only does he bring together several theorists who participate in the debate throughout the globalized world – Mulvey, Aumont, Bellour, Dubois, Gaudreault, Marion, Rodowick, Casetti – but Andrew also reignites this debate that could be considered a scholastic quarrel about a process whose outcome is still uncertain – the end of cinema! – if it were not a historical mutation, the practical consequences of which we experience every day. Some partners in the dialogue initiated by Andrew appear in this book with new questions.
