Symptomatic Reading in Film Analysis. A reconstruction

Abstract

This article reviews the evolution of the concept of symptomatic reading in film analysis, with the aim of reconstructing the term and defining a model for its application. Drawing on the most representative proposals of this trend since the early twentieth century, the study addresses historical agreements and controversies in the form of a state of the question. Finally, from the coordinates of semiotics, it offers a theoretical reconstruction of the idea and discusses a pathway for its exercise, based on key methodological approaches.