Keywords

• This paper aims to describe the peculiar phenomenon of Italian â€
• œ
• club cinemaâ€
• 
• during its flourishing years
• from the mid-Seventies to the early-Eighties. Cineclub screenings took their place within a multi-faceted context of social discourses on film
• composed by statements of taste
• theoretical assumptions
• and criticism that were often elaborated in lesser
• marginal
• and local journals. The screenings and the discourses that surrounded them will be addressed by looking at threemain aspects: 1) the innovative features of that period as compared to preexisting cultural practices (circoli di cinema
• cinema dâ€
• ™
• essai)
• 2) Italian cinephilia as an example of early â€
• œ
• convergence cultureâ€
• 
• 3) Italian cinephilia as a pattern of emotional consumption
• suitable for a newsociology of attachment