A representação da memória da Guerra Civil Libanesa no cinema de Jocelyne Saab : uma análise dos filmes A Suspended Life (1985) e What's Going On? (2009)

Abstract

The period of extreme violence of the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990) left deep marks on society. However, the policies implemented by the Lebanese government after the Ta’if Accord didn't address unresolved sociopolitical issues that fueled the civil war for 15 years. Confronted with a form of collective amnesia sponsored by the state, the lebanese people began to disguise their trauma from an era of national terror in Lebanon's history. From this perspective, Jocelyne Saab's cinema served as the primary space where the civil war memory could be recorded and recovered. In this study, an aesthetic analysis was conducted to understand how her films A Suspended Life (1985) and What's Going On? (2009) represent and reconstruct the collective memory of the Lebanese Civil War.