Forgive but Not Forget: The Social Role of Cinema in Restoring Collective Memory and Rebuilding Belonging

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Author(s): Amal Adel Abdrabo (Faculty of Education, Alexandria University, Egypt)
Copyright: 2021
Pages: 25
Source title: Memory, Conflicts, Disasters, and the Geopolitics of the Displaced
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Clara Rachel Eybalin Casseus (Independent Researcher, France), Stevens Aguto Odongoh (Makerere University, Uganda)and Amal Adel Abdrabo (Faculty of Education, Alexandria University, Egypt)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-4438-9.ch007

Keywords: Business Science Reference / Civic Engagement & Social Justice / Government and Law / Social Sciences & Humanities

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Pierre Nora once said, “We speak so much of memory because there is so little of it left.” Does it mean that we need to document memory so not to lose the truth? What is the ‘T'ruth? And from which perspective? Based on the Lebanese case, could films be one of the mechanisms used to achieve transitional justice? The author of this chapter depends on both Pierre Nora's perception of sites and place of memory along with Maurice Halbwachs' theory on collective memory in order to understand whether documenting the traumatic events is considered as an applicable mechanism to achieve justice within countries that struggle to accomplish national reconciliation? The methodological approach relies on visual critical discourse analysis combining Paul Ricoeur's hermeneutic approach and Norman Fairclough's perception of dialectic of discourse.

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