A memory of a memory: cinema, poetry and emotional memory

Abstract

If we talk about memory, we also talk about movies. Cinema and literature are part of our memories: stories that we loved on the big scren, become part of our own emotional memory. In case of literature, film experience is able to trigger the lyrical story. In this article, with three collections of poems about cinema, written by Juan Antonio Bermúdez, Claudia Masin and Víctor Jiménez, we will analyze the connections between cinema, poetry and memory in contemporary literature. Beyond historical cinema and documentary cinema, classic films which these authors grew up with, and even the most current ones, are the starting point of the poems that we can find in the book. All of them mix cinematic memory and personal experience to tell a story that never dies, so they delete limits between fiction and reality, and between memory and imagination.