screen memory

Only on closer inspection does the paint itself become apparent, betraying the screen memory of childhood fantasy and its enduring legacies.

Okinawa is in a sense the screen memory for the death of Belkhodja's own lover, and then again, Okinawa is the counterpoint to the immolation of Hiroshima that is addressed in Resnais's opening sequence.

That is, the "screen memory" employs the innocence associated with childhood at once to conceal and project memories and desires that are otherwise subject to repression.

The representation of Parma as a conceptual, rather than a "real," space is one readily recognizable in Il serpente, where the opening page provides a scene that might best be interpreted in Freudian terms as a "screen memory," that is, an imagined memory of a childhood experience unconsciously used to repress recollection of an associated but distressing event through a process of displacement (Freud, Early Psycho-Analytic Publications 321-32).

135-167; Marita Sturken, "The Wall and the Screen Memory: The Vietnam Veterans' Memorial," Tangled Memories: The Vietnam War, the A.I.D.S.

Sprightly Finnish kidpic "Hayflower and Quiltshoe" gets off to a roaring start with some of the most memorably bratty behavior in recent screen memory. Story momentum flags a bit later on, but this candy-colored confection nonetheless packs enough fun to enchant younger viewers.