Cities of Love: espaços de recordação, esquecimentos, circulação e fabricação de memórias

Abstract

This work investigates collective films of contemporary fiction as spaces dedicated to remembrance, engendering, circulation and silencing of urban memories. Paris, I Love You (2006), New York, I Love You (2009) and Rio, I Love You (2014) form the empirical object of research and the franchise Cities of Love is responsible for the production of feature analyzed films. The theoretical discussion relied on dialog between memory, media and urban cinematography. Stand out in a condition of theoretical contribution, the written of Almeida (1999), Assmann, A. (2008; 2011), Assmann, J. (2008; 2011), Calvino (2013), Comolli (2008), Costa (2002; 2008a), Erll (2008a; 2008b; 2012), Huyssen (2000), Mongin (2009), Pollak (1992) and Schorske (2000). As for the methodological procedures, is predominantly approach in qualitative and it is use in conjunction of the content analysis of the type of themes and film, based on Aumont and Marie (2013) and Bardin (2011). The objectives achieved are: identification of the cities of Paris, New York and Rio de Janeiro from the narrative, human types, places and events valued by the productions; indication of discourses and images related to the particularities of the human experience in movement in the Cities of Love; and reflection about formation of memories and the operations of remembrance related to the cities by the films and in the films. In conclusion, that the films belonging to the relief cinematic Cities of Love, at the same time that build cities index become fields of dispute of urban memories.