| Abstract | This study focuses on the movie Hotel Rwanda (2005), which depicts the Rwandan genocide of 1994, and tries to capture how viewers remember the film and how they interpret the actual events. It aims to reconstruct what (e.g. actors, events, motives, causes) is remembered by whom (e.g. age, sex, education) and in what way (e.g. context, dramatization). One important finding is that it is much less the movie’s narration and pictures that shape the interpretation and knowledge of the event as it is the background and personality of its audience that determines how viewers understand the events, what they remember and how these memories are constructed.
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