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Although precise definitions have not been agreed on, historical cinema tends to cut across existing genre categories and establishes an intimidatingly large group of films. In recent years, a lively body of work has developed around historical cinema, much of it proposing valuable new ways to consider the relationship between cinematic and historical representation. However, only a small proportion of this writing has paid attention to the issue of genre. In order to counter this omission, this book combines a critical analysis of the Hollywood historical film with an examination of its...

The Tributary is an anthropology adventure set in the Amazon basin that looks to identify and pinpoint more accurately when mankind first arrived in South America. A scientific expedition hopes to achieve this through the discovery of a suspected, genetically-isolated tribe deep in the forest, from which DNA samples will enable them to illuminate a period of man's evolutionary history of which very little is known. It soon becomes clear, however, as they travel further into the depths of the jungle, that an even greater discovery beckons, a discovery that will have profound implications for...