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Deanne SchultzPublication Details
BookGreenwood Press2007Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS REFERENCE (MAIN) PN1995.9.H5 S39 2007 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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Description
Global in scope and a practical tool for students and teachers of history, Filmography of World History: A Select, Critical Guide To Feature Films That Engage The Past includes description and analysis of over 300 historical films. The book offers an historian’s perspective on films as varied as Ararat, Black Rain, Lin Zexu, Saladin, Winstanley, Judgment at Nuremberg, Distant Thunder, The Official Story, Cabeza de Vaca, Newsfront, Lumumba, Daresalam, and The Great White Man of Lambarene. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
Contents
- Introduction: Definitions, parameters, possibilities. Historians and films ; Why a filmography of world history? ; Why use feature films in the classroom? ; Film selections explained
- Themes in world history on screen. History as biography ; Crossing cultures: conquest, exchange, diaspora ; Civil, international, and sectarian conflict ; Society: modernization and tradition ; Redefining historical narrative: reflexivity, myth, memory, satire
- Filmography
- Cross references to films
ISBN
- 0313326819
- 9780313326813
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