Once Upon a Time I Went to the Movies: A Thousand and One First Times. Cinema Memories and the Construction of Heritage
Abstract
Drawing on extensive and previously unpublished fieldwork concerning the first cinematic experiences of audiences between 1930 and 1970, this study raises a series of critical issues and questions regarding both the content and aims of national cinema narratives, as well as the complex interplay and hierarchical tensions between oral and written cultural forms. The evocative force of these pieces invites a reconsideration of the relationship between materials and the aims of heritage-making processes within the broader memorial continuum: from testimonial to agential, encompassing documentary, archival, historical, and museological dimensions. The critical perspective adopted here, rooted in academic discourse, proposes an alternative epistemological and methodological approach in which the re-embodiment and reactivation of these materials enable a renewed articulation of the relationship between History and Praxis.
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