LAS RELACIONES ENTRE LA HISTORIA Y EL CINE Y SUS CONDICIONANTES PARA LA VISIÓN DEL PASADO

Abstract

This paper tries to offer some interpretative notes for historians about the hermeneutics needed for a rigorous investigation with films, whatever its typologies. In the same way like literature, memory or orality offer their particular methods to understand the past, cinematography also brings its own explication to the historical knowledge of a human community, but being subject to a distinct approach procedure. After characterizing it with theoretical reflections, it is finally worked out through a practical application with a critical analysis of two historical reconstitution fiction films: Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick, 1957) and Merry Christmas (Christian Carion, 2005), being possible to identify the determinants that both products have given to the knowledge of the World War I and of the societies coetaneous to their creation.