Reel Recollections: Notes on Cinematic Depictions of Memory

The impact of troubling memories has always been a staple of movie melodrama, including a spate of contemporary films about adult survivors of child abuse who recover their mental health by retrieving past traumas i therapy. On a broader scale, genres diverse as the epic, western, comedy, war and weird movie have een pervaded by memories and the depiction of remembrance since the early silent era.

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