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GEM 2005 / HY2243
FILM AND HISTORY
Lecture 6
Why Do You Remember?: Memory and the Past
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
1) Introduction: Why do we Remember?
2) Approaches to History
Positivist
Leopold Von Ranke
Interpretive/”Post-Modern”
The Positive and Triumphant
History/The Alternative
Manifest Destiny
3) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
A) Characters
“My Darling Clementine”
B) Background
Heloise and Abelard
Peter Abelard
The Events
Alexander Pope – “Eloisa and Abelard”
4) Things to think about…/Conclusion