American heritage: Glauber Rocha, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and the memories in image and sound.

Abstract

As “memory places”, the audiovisual files retain collections which are few explored by the historical studies. This present paper presents some research possibilities with multimedia collections. Often preserved in film archives, sometimes in personal files, this varied documentation was generally accumulated over years by people linked to the country’s culture. This paper intends to raise the value of this collections as historical heritage, offering a practical analysis of the records in several media. As a goal we intend to overlay the studies on cultural history with the studies on cinema history, regarding the audiovisual heritage as a common object to both search fields.