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The history on film reader / edited by Marnie Hughes-Warrington.
Van Pelt Library PN1995.2 .H57 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge readers in history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures and history.
- Historical films--History and criticism.
- Historical films.
- History in motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- x, 326 pages ; 26 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Introducing historical film 13
- 1 The Film in History / Pierre Sorlin 15
- 2 `Any Resemblance to Persons Living or Dead': Film and the Challenge of Authenticity / Natalie Zemon Davis 17
- 3 History in Images/History in Words / Robert A. Rosenstone 30
- 4 The Historical Film: History and Memory in Media / Marcia Landy 42
- 5 Historiography and Historiophoty / Hayden White 53
- Part 2 Shaping historical film 61
- 6 Historical Fiction: A Body Too Much? / Jean-Louis Comolli 65
- 7 The Representability of Time / Mary A. Doane 75
- 8 Flashbacks in Film: Memory and History / Maureen Turim 85
- 9 Cinema 2: The Time-Image / Gilles Deleuze 100
- 10 Is Life Beautiful? Can the Shoah be Funny? Some Thoughts on Recent and Older Films / Sander L. Gilman 108
- 11 Serious Humor: Laughter as Lamentation / Lawrence Baron 122
- Part 3 Historical films and identity 133
- 12 Prosthetic Memory/Traumatic Memory: Forrest Gump (1994) / Robert Burgoyne 137
- 13 Never Having to Say You're Sorry: Rambo's Rewriting of the Vietnam War / D. Desser, G. Studlar 143
- 14 In the Combat Zone / Marilyn B. Young 153
- 15 Revisiting the Round Table: Arthur's American Dream / Susan Aronstein 161
- 16 Gladiator (2000) / Monica Silveira Cyrino 176
- Part 4 Historical film as reality, documentary and propaganda 185
- 17 History: A Retro Scenario / Jean Baudrillard 189
- 18 Detail and Historicity in Mainstream Cinema: Reality and Indexicality from Bazin to Barthes / Philip Rosen 193
- 19 The Romans in Films / Roland Barthes 207
- 20 A Production Designer's Cinema: Historical Authenticity in Popular Films set in the Past / Michelle Pierson 210
- 21 Mirrors without Memories: Truth, History, and the New Documentary / Linda Williams 220
- 22 Memory and Pedagogy in the `Wonderful World of Disney': Beyond the Politics of Innocence / H. A. Giroux 231
- Part 5 Marketing and receiving historical film 235
- 23 The Presence of the Past: Popular uses of History in American Life / Roy Rosenzweig, David Thelen 239
- 24 Irony, Nostalgia, and The Postmodern / Linda Hutcheon 249
- 25 The Carole Lombard in Macy's Window / Charles Eckert 260
- 26 Selling My Heart: Music and Cross-Promotion in Titanic / Jeff Smith 272
- 27 On the Prospect of Writing Cinema History from Below / Richard Maltby 287.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [308]-322) and index.
- Includes filmography.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780415462204
- 0415462207
- 9780415462198
- 0415462193
- OCLC:
- 227918261
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