Film is increasingly engaging the attention of students of history at all levels. In its manifold forms from the newsreel to the 'feature', it is a major source of evidence for, and an important influence upon, contemporary history, and a vivid means of bringing the recent past …
by Gibbons, Tony, Sutherland, Emily
fromRoutledge approaches to history
The concept of integrity / Tony Gibbons -- 'Who would want to believe that, except in the service of the bleakest realism?' Historical fiction and ethics / Jerome de Groot -- Transgressive legacies of memory : the concept of Techné in Primo Levi's The periodic table / Cătălina B…
"The Persistence of History examines how the moving image has completely altered traditional modes of historical thought and representation. Exploring a range of film and video texts, from The Ten Commandments to the Rodney King video, from the projected work of documentarian Er…
"The Persistence of History examines how the moving image has completely altered traditional modes of historical thought and representation. Exploring a range of film and video texts, from The Ten Commandments to the Rodney King video, from the projected work of documentarian Er…
A new genre of film is identified and explored.
Essays that consider how classic movies have reflected history include the writings of such noted historians as Paul Fussell, Antonia Fraser, and Gore Vidal.
Nearly one hundred movies are examined to determine the relationship between film and the historical period, to show what has been changed and for what reason. Each analysis also includes "Later ..." to explore the subsequent history of the event.
This study examines the ways in which films and texts re-imagine the past, to investigate what this reveals about our contemporary culture and society.
"This book looks at the ways in which films and texts re-imagine the past, to investigate what this may reveal about our contemporary culture and society. Looking at a broad range of films and books that attempt to represent the past and placing them in their own historical cont…
"Proposing a fresh theoretical approach to the study of cinematic portrayals of the Middle Ages, this book uses semiotics and historiography to demonstrate how contemporary filmmakers have attempted to recreate the past in a way that, while largely imagined, is also logical, mea…
"Can filmed history measure up to written history? What happens to history when it is recorded in images, rather than words? Can images convey ideas and information that lie beyond words? Taking on these timely questions, Robert Rosenstone pioneers a new direction in the relatio…
American history has always been an irresistible source of inspiration for filmmakers, and today, for good or ill, most Americans sense of the past likely comes more from Hollywood than from the works of historians. In important films such as The Birth of a Nation (1915), -Roots…
