AAM. TAC. Arts and artifacts in movie. Technology, Aesthetics, Communication. An International Journal. 4. 2007. [Edizione italiana e inglese]

AAM - TAC, a publication offered by the Institute for Music of the Giorgio Cini Foundation in Venice, is an innovative journal that addresses the arts and artifacts of cinematic production with concrete research in subjects in the areas of technology, aesthetics and communication. The journal is divided into three sections according to theme. The first section considers the evolution of the creative responsibility of the film author - writer, narrator or director - and hisincreasing authority and autonomy from technological conditioning. Furthermore, analysis of the various procedures involved in the construction of a film product are taught, along with the different groups involved with the making of a film, the new interconnections between the various creators of images: the set, the troupe, the laboratories, the minimal production units, the big apparatus, producers outside the majors and official or experimental economic-productive systems, which increasingly favor digital systems, cable television networks and advertising. The second section is devoted to studies on case of 'failures' in the sense of crises of artistic value or the consumption of products. We believe that studying the processes of failure can lead to a useful re-examination of the ideas of evaluation and interpretation of the success of original works, re-makes, and stylistic re-elaborations. The third section contains studies and analyses of 'memory' as repertory, as classification, as 'museum' and as a source of a critical framework: we insist on the need to give body and content to the study of cinema, in order to elevate the problem of the conservation of cine-artifacts.