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The Historical Film : History And Memory In Media

  • The Historical Film : History And Memory In Media

  • Title

    • Rutgers Depth Of Field Series

  • Attribution

    edited and with an introduction by Marcia Landy

  • Publication Details

    Book, Rutgers University Press, 2001

  • Availability

    LOCATIONCALL #STATUS
      (UPPER LEVEL)  PN1995.9.H5 H59 2001         AVAILABLE

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  • Description

    Thus it invites a film programmer to analyze a genre of film and its impact.”-The Public Historian What is history? The essays in The Historical Film: History and Memory in Media probe the roles that cinema and television play in altering and complicating our understanding of historical events. Essays by top scholars analyze many different kinds of film: historical film, documentary, costume drama, and heritage films. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

  • Author

  • Subject

  • Contents

    • Introduction / Marcia Landy
    • How to Look at an "Historical" Film / Pierre Sorlin
    • The Historical Film: Looking at the Past in a Postliterate Age / Robert A. Rosenstone
    • Making History / George E. Custen
    • Historical Pleasures: Gainsborough Costume Melodrama / Sue Harper
    • Projecting Ancient Rome / Maria Wyke
    • "You Remember Diana Dors, Don’t You?" History, Femininity, and the Law in 1950s and 1980s British Cinema / Marcia Landy - - The Presence of the Past: Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s The Marriage of Maria Braun / Anton Kaes
    • Schindler’s List Is Not Shoah: The Second Commandment, Popular Modernism, and Public Memory / Miriam Bratu Hansen
    • Walker and Mississippi Burning: Postmodernism versus Illusionist Narrative / Sumiko Higashi
    • Empire as Myth and Memory / Naomi Greene
    • Black God, White Devil: The Representation of History / Ismail Xavier
    • Official History, Popular Memory: Reconfiguration of the African Past in the Films of Ousmane Sembene / Mbye Cham
    • Information, Crisis, Catastrophe / Mary Ann Doane
    • History, the Eternal Rerun : On Crime Story / Richard Dienst
    • History on Television : The Making of Cold War, 1998 / Taylor Downing
    • Ken Burns’s Rebirth of a Nation: Television, Narrative, and Popular History / Gary Edgerton
    • Interrotroning History: Errol Morris and the Documentary of the Future / Shawn Rosenheim

  • ISBN

    • 0813528569
    • 0813528550

  • LCCN

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