La representación cinematográfica de la memoria personal en la ficción y el documental

  1. del Rincón Yohn, María
Supervised by:
  1. Efrén Cuevas Álvarez Director
  2. Marta Torregrosa Puig Co-director

Defence university: Universidad de Navarra

Fecha de defensa: 02 September 2016

Committee:
  1. Vicente José Benet Ferrando Chair
  2. María Noguera Tajadura Secretary
  3. Marta Frago Pérez Committee member
  4. Sonia García López Committee member
  5. Carmen Sofía Brenes Committee member
Department:
  1. (FCOM) Cultura y Comunicación Audiovisual

Type: Thesis

Teseo: 122034 DIALNET

Abstract

In this research, I propose both theoretical and aesthetical approaches to the cinematographic representation of personal memory, starting from a theoretical framework that links the essential qualities of memory with the nature of film. External representations of personal memory can be found in a limited corpus of films that I call “films of memory”. These films can be either fiction films or documentary films. The main subject of these films is memory, understood as the human action through which the character remembers some facts from his past. These films use the specific tools of cinema to offer a proper representation of the nature of memory and its main qualities. My thesis combines a theoretical framework with two chapters which deepen into the theoretical and formal aspects of the representation of memory in fiction films and documentary films. These two analytical chapters are completed with a case of study: The film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is analysed to portray the main qualities of the fiction films which represent personal memory, and the documentary film by Alan Berliner, First Cousin Once Removed is explores in the chapter about documentary films.