Daniela Treveri Gennari gave the keynote lecture “Against the loss of cinema memory” at the “From Cinema Culture to Cinema Memory” Conference in Lancaster.
This paper’s title takes inspiration from Umberto Eco’s Against the loss of memory (2013) lecture at the United Nations to reflect on how the landscape of cinema memory is evolving and what methodological developments are emerging. The presentation will make use of the oral history collected in the AHRC-funded Italian and European Cinema Audiences projects to suggest ways of resisting the loss of cinema memory in two ways: 1. by taking into account – when analysing oral history – the fragmented nature of memory, its repeated overwriting in time (Genova 2021) as well as the multifaceted transnational dimension of audiences; 2. and by addressing these challenges in the process of capturing, articulating and archiving these fragments of cinema memories.
