Memory in World Cinema

Nancy J. Membrez is a professor of Spanish literature, culture, and Spanish and Latin American cinemas, as well as film production, at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She wrote the English subtitles for four Subiela films and produced three featurettes for the Kino Lorber DVD/Blu-ray of Man Facing Southeast. Her own film Portrait in Sepia Tone won Best Picture and Best Soundtrack at the International Filmmakers’ Film Festival in Kent, England, in 2008. She lives in San Antonio, Texas.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

In Search of Lost Time: Memory and Recall in French Cinema

of the Fourth Republic (1946–1958) (Tim Palmer)

The Seamless Web: Trauma, Memory and ­Self-Creation in El laberinto del fauno (Pan’s Labyrinth, Del Toro, 2006) (John Incledon)

Transmission, Legacy and Desire in the Urban Cosmos of Amic/Amat

(Beloved/Friend, Pons, 1998) (Melissa Wallace)

Trauma, Amnesia and Alzheimer’s on Belgian TV: Tabula Rasa (2017) (Nancy J. Membrez)

Film as Autobiographical Act: Pasolini’s Edipo Re (Oedipus, 1967) (Linda Belau)

Memory, Children and Remorse in Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty (2013)(Molly Mezzetti Zaldivar)

Chronicles of Boys Alone: Sciuscià (Shoeshine, De Sica, 1946) and Crónica de un niño solo (Chronicle of a Boy Alone, Favio, 1965) (Erin K. Hogan)

Images of Childhood in Eliseo Subiela’s Films (1986–2001)

Liliana Judith Guzmán, translated by Nancy J. Memrez

In Memoriam: A Short Apocryphal Biography of Eliseo Subiela (1944–2016)(Nancy J. Membrez)

Colonial Memory and Re-Birth in Ivy Marãey (Land Without Evil, Valdivia, 2013) (Keith John Richards)

A Memento Mori: The Transnational Case of Macario (Gavaldón, 1960)(Nancy J. Membrez)

The Commodification of Historical Memory on Film: The Case of the Mirabal Sisters in the Dominican Republic (Fernando ­Valerio-Holguín, translated by Nancy J. Membrez)

Kairo (Pulse, Kurosawa, 2001) and Kairos: Postmodern Japanese Computer Culture, Memory and Entropy (Gilles A. Viennot, translated by James H. Membrez)

Memory in Three Japanese Films: Rashomon (Kurosawa, 1950), Grave of the Fireflies (Takahata, 1988) and After Life (Kore’eda, 1998)

(Nancy J. Membrez)

An Interview with Bolivian Director Juan Carlos Valdivia (Keith John Richards)

An Interview with Paula Félix-Didier, Director of the Museo del Cine

Pablo C. Ducrós-Hicken in Buenos Aires (Nancy J. Membrez)

Appendix I. Films with the Theme of Memory

Appendix II. Films with the Theme of Memory Through the Eyes of a Child/Child Protagonist

About the Contributors

Index