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L.F. Starodubtseva
Cinematographic “post-memory”
// Culture and Art.
2013. ¹ 3.
P. 297-305.
URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=62830
L.F. Starodubtseva Cinematographic “post-memory”
Abstract:
the article attempts to trace the ways
of visualization of memory, performing a hermeneutical
insight into the history of screen representations
of “cinematographic memory”, “cinematic
retentiveness” and “cinematographic postmemory
”. The goal of the article is to substantiate
the concept of “cinematographic post-memory”
on the basis of showing the correlations of the
concepts of “memory”, “fire” and “sacrifice” in the
cinematographic reminiscence of the 1812 fires in
Moscow as a cultural trauma of sorts. The three
ways of overcoming this “memory trauma” can
be metaphorically called “the Letey waters” historical
anesthesia (extrusion of traumatic experience),
“the Wisdom of Mnemosine” (dealing with traumatic experience by rethinking it, “accepting”
it as a given part of historical memory) and the
“Paramnesia’s Smirk” (memory metamorphosis,
reforming of memories via pseudoreminiscence,
substitution of ersatz and fakes of the past. Cinematographic
“post-memory” of the Moscow 1812
fires chose the third way, as illustrated by multiple
screen versions of Tolstoy’s “War and Peace”:
K. Vidor and M. Soldati’s in 1956, S. Bondarchuk’s
Oscar-winning movie in 1956, and R. Dornhelm’s
2007 screen version. In the rich variety of ways to
create the visual images of fire in “memory films”,
three main rapidly interchanging approaches of
cinematic illusion based on pulsating magnification
seem dominant: the “point-blank view”, the
“chiasm view” and the “distant view”. They do
not just mark the distance play, or the change of
scenes by changing magnification. They are three
masks which hide the ironic smirk of Paramnesia,
three ways to set up distorting filters for ocular
and mental perception – the prisms of “mental
optics”, filters of sight and thought, conscious
screening of the trauma without the ability to actually
erase it.
Keywords:
history of art, culture and art, memory, visualization, cinematograph, Paramnesia, trauma, war, fire, sacrifice.
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