The History on Film Reader

ISBN-13: 9780415462204 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 336 str.

Hughes-Warringt

Opis

Offers readers an introduction to just under 30 critical and representative writings on the relationship between film and history. These writings represent a combination of insights from film theory, cultural studies, historiography, the history of cinema, and, film promotion and reception.

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Introduction Marnie Hughes-Warrington.  History on Film: Theory, Production, Reception  Part 1: Introducing Historical Film  1. The Film in History: Restaging the Past Pierre Sorlin  2. Film and the Challenge of Authenticity Natalie Zemon Davis  3. History in Images/History in Words Robert Rosenstone  4. History and Media and Memory Marcia Landy  5. Historiography and Historiophoty Hayden White  Part 2: Shaping Historical Film  6. Historical Fiction: A Body Too Much? Jean Comolli  7.  The Emergence of Cinematic Time Mary A. Doane  8. Flashbacks in Film Maureen Turim  9. The Time-Image Gilles Deleuze  10. Can the Shoah be Funny? Some Thoughts on Recent and Older Films S.L. Gilman  11. Projecting the Holocaust into the Present Lawrence Baron  Part 3: Historical Film and Identity  12. Prosthetic Memory / Traumatic Memory Robert Burgoyne.  Cinema.  13. Never Having to Say You're Sorry: Rambo's Rewriting of the Vietnam War D. Desser and G. Studies  14. In the Combat Zone Marilyn Young  15. Revisiting the Round Table: Arthur’s American Dream Susan Aronstein  16. Gladiator and Contemporary America (2000) Monica Silveira Cyrino  Part 4: Historical Films as Reality, Documentary and Propaganda  17. History: A Retro Scenario Jean Baudrillard  18. Detail and Historicity in Mainstream Cinema Philip Rosen  19. The Romans in Film Rolans Barthes  20. Historical Authenticity in Popular Films Set in the Past Michelle Pierson  21. Truth, History, and the New Documentary Linda Williams  22. Memory and Pedagogy in the ‘Wonderful World of Disney H.A. Giroux  Part 5: Marketing and Receiving Historical Film  23. Irony, Nostalgia and the Postmodern L. Hutcheon  24. The Carole Lombard in Macy's Window C. Eckert  25. Selling My Heart: Music and Cross-Promotion in Titanic J. Smith  26. The Presence of the Past Roy Rosenzweig and David Thelen.  Filmography.  Index

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Marnie Hughes-Warrington is Associate Professor in Modern History at Macquarie University. She is the author of 'How Good an Historian Shall I Be?'(2003), History Goes to the Movies (2007), and Fifty Key Thinkers on History (2008), and is the editor of Palgrave Advances in World Histories (2005).