From Box office to memory: Telling stories is not an innocent act

Abstract

Throughout human history to narrate have had crucial function to construct a society with meanings culturally binding its members and to sustain them for generations in society. Epic stories, proverbs, historical tales are such narratives which, in particular, form patterns for the “shared conceptual framework” of members of a culture. Thus, narratives, in a broadest sense circulate within a society through individual memories of its members and serve to communicate and create meanings by operating like language.Films Bread and Roses by Ken Loach (2000) and Maid in Manhattan (2002) by Wayne Wange intersect with their narrative tools indicating how individual and cultural memory overlap globally within international film industry.