Lecture | Film and the Shaping of Historical Memory

Dr. habil. András Lénárt associate professor

University of Szeged, Department of Hispanic Studies

will deliver a lecture entitled

Film and the Shaping of Historical Memory

Date and time: 23 November, 3:00 p.m.

Venue: Room C/V/2, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Pécs

Films about history typically entertain and educate, but they can also manipulate and distort. While films used to be viewed primarily in movie theaters and on television, today they reach us on virtually every existing platform. History is already a product of subjective interpretation, and film offers a new perspective on it. When we talk about films about the past, real events, and actual people, is it important to always see reality? What other perspectives should we consider? This lecture will address how film contributes to shaping historical memory, the role of education in this process, which genres can be included in the "film and history" topic, the differences between foreign and Hungarian approaches, and why we must view the purposes and effects of certain films differently. Spanning vast distances in both space and time, we will examine how the relationship between film and history has evolved as we know it today.