The Semiology of Cinema?: It Is Necessary to Continue! A Conversation with Christian Metz

This interview was first published in Italian in the very first issue ofCinegrafie, 1/1 (February 1989), pp. 11-23. It was conducted by Elena Dagrada on 18 October 1988, in Bologna, starting from an outline of ten questions drawn up jointly with Guglielmo Pescatore. Christian Metz was in Bologna for a conference dedicated to the theme ofLa cultura italiana e le letterature straniere moderne.He was extremely cooperative and authorized publication of this transcript without having reviewed it. In his last book, Jean Mitry talks about a young student who in 1964 came to him with a manuscript entitled