Le film de famille, héritier de la tradition orale
This research wants to demonstrate that the home movie and his reception context seem to be deeply marked by oral tradition and it’s communicative and social system.  Orality should be considered as the family remembrance catalyst in home movies.  This spoken word is the main transporter of the interpretation of home movie message as the family discourse.  In fact, if we try to evaluate which one of the sensory mediums is more important for family communication (visual or oral medium), we would find out that orality plays a bigger part.  Consequently, its form, content and finality correspond to the “oral cinema” definition of Germain Lacasse.  Because of an actual lack of literature on this specific subject, the purpose of this study is to connect and define theories of oral tradition and home movie.  The theoretical approach developed is based on oral tradition theory, Halbwach’s collective memory theory and on the relations between cinema and orality.  Therefore, several aspects will be discussed : the contribution of orality in domestic memory constitution, the orality involvement in family memory stimulators or medias, and finally, the analysis of home movie’s form and content as an oral cinema. In addition, four sequences of Quebec made home movies since the twenties until our days are studied.
Home movie Oral tradition Family memory Collective memory Oral cinema