Reflections on autobiographical memory in the contemporary audiovisual medium

Abstract

The biographical discourse follows a traditional positivist model, focused on relations of cause and effect, and composes a chronological logic to present a life story. In the last decades, scholars have questioned this crystallized form and have offered new possibilities for the writing of the biographies. The audiovisual product, object of interest of this work, despite certain advantages over paper model, still produces screenplays in which the slices of life of an individual are an ordered succession of events in time. The purpose of this article is therefore reflect on how memory is present in the biographical films and what kind of contemporary modifications have been introduced into the trivial model so as to remove the mythical aspect that involves the biographees.