Historical Memory in Fiction Cinema: between the Banality of Evil and the Spiral of Silence. A Case Study on the Nuremberg Trials
Abstract
Historical memory has in cinema one of its mechanisms of reproduction, circulation, and consolidation. In Europe, certain films about its most complex events have mediated social consciousness and identity in a continent that projects itself and to others through a constant reflection on its own meaning. Through a critical discourse analysis, we study Judgement at Nuremberg (Kramer, 1961), considering heuristic categories such as the banality of evil and the spiral of silence. It is shown how historical memory is not only mediated by the cultural, political, and social conditions surrounding the discourse, but also by the simplification and imposition of certain representations to the detriment of others.
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