El cine más allá del signo: revisitando el concepto de indexicalidad en la teoría de André Bazin

Resumen:
The recent technological transformations of cinema have brought back the debate on the properties of the photographic image, calling attention once again to Andre Bazin's film theory, especially his key work "The Ontology of the Photographic Image." In this text, Bazin establishes a correlation between the materiality of the cinema and its aesthetic tendency towards realism. This article offers a terminological clarification on one of the most fundamental concepts of his theory - the trace-, which is frequently identified with C.S. Peirce's indexicality, prompting semiotic readings of a pre-semiotic film theory.