History on Film/Film on History

ISBN-13: 9781032455389 / Miękka / 2023 / 160 str.

USA) Rosensto Robert A. (California Institute of Technology

Opis

 In the fourth edition of this widely acclaimed text, Robert A. Rosenstone argues that to leave history films out of the discussion of the meaning of the past is to ignore a major means of understanding historical events.

Spis treści

Contents

Illustrations

Preface to the series

Introduction to the fourth edition

Introduction to the third edition

Introduction to the second edition

Acknowledgments

　

Chapter 1 History on film

Chapter 2 To see the past

Chapter 3 Mainstream drama

Chapter 4 Innovative drama

Chapter 5 Documentary

Chapter 6 Telling lives

Chapter 7 Film-maker/historian

Chapter 8 Engaging the discourse

Chapter 9 The view from 2017

Chapter 10 Beyond the West

Chapter 11 Film on history

Guide to key reading

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Robert A Rosenstone is Professor Emeritus of History at the California Institute of Technology. His award-winning biography of John Reed, Romantic Revolutionary (1975), was used as the basis of the multiple Academy Award winner Reds, one of several films on which he served as historical consultant. His other publications include Visions of the Past (1995), Crusade of the Left (1969), Mirror in the Shrine (1988), and Adventures of a Postmodern Historian (2016). He is editor of Revisioning History (1995) and Experiments in Rethinking History (2004), and a Founding Editor of the journal Rethinking History. Rosenstone has lectured widely in the USA, Latin America, Europe, and East Asia, and has served as a visiting faculty member in the University of Barcelona, Kyushu University in Japan, Tolima University in Colombia, the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, and Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece.