Date of Award
1-2022
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
College/School
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department/Program
English
Thesis Sponsor/Dissertation Chair/Project Chair
Alexios Lykidis
Committee Member
Jeffrey Gonzalez
Committee Member
Art Simon
Abstract
This paper examines themes prevalent in the works of Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu, particularly familial bonds, responsibility, memory and legacy. Through a lens of hauntology, a term first coined by Jacques Derrida in reference to the persistent or haunting qualities of social, cultural or political ideas, this analysis considers the “ghosts” of Iñárritu’s films and the demands they make on the living.
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Recommended Citation
Hook, Elizabeth Denny, "“To Feel Myself Beloved on the Earth” : Hauntology and Memory in the Films of Alejandro Gonzalez lnarritu" (2022). Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects. 873.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/etd/873