Between recall and return. Memory and history of a ghost in A Ghost Story (David Lowery, 2017)
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https://doi.org/10.24310/Fotocinema.2020.v0i20.7622Keywords:
Ghosts, memory, time, death, horror, narratology.Abstract
This article studies the concept of memory in the movie A Ghost Story. This work by David Lowery presents a ghost covered by a sheet, condemned to saunter in the realm of the living. We are interested in answering the question of how the film represents some ideas related to time, death and recall. In this ghostly story some of the recurring motives of fantasy and horror genre can be identified. However, these common places are reinterpreted and framed in a romantic drama with a complex narrative structure. In addition, the nature of the story implies certain problems related to the temporality of the cinematographic image. Hence, we are interested in studying the processes of significance and persuasion that make the misadventures of this wandering spectre bealivable. To do so, two methodologies will be used: narratological analysis and film analysis. Specifically, we will rely on the concepts of order, duration and frequency coined by Gérard Genette, located in specific sequences of the film.
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