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Screening the past : film and the representation of history / edited by Tony Barta.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures and history.
- Historical films--History and criticism.
- Historical films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (293 p.)
- Distribution:
- London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1998.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Addressing the various ways the past is ""screened"" for our understanding and relating the art of film to other media, this collection of essays deals with the changing perspectives of political and social development in films and television programmes made for historically shaped reasons.
- Contents:
- Preliminaries; Contents; 1. Screening the Past: History Since the Cinema; 2. ''Captain Bligh'' as Mythic Cliche ́: The Films; 3. Re-screening the Past; 4. ''Smart Jews''; 5. ''A Stab in the Back on a Sunday Morning''; 6. Losing the Peace:; 7. The Scent of Distant Blood: Hammer Films and History; 8. Film Nazis: The Great Escape; 9. Marcel Ophu ̈ ls' November Days; 10. Braveheart and the Scottish Aesthetic Dementia; 11. Borders and Boundaries:; 12. Television and Our Understanding of History; 13. Letatlin and Ern Malley; 14. Projected Lives; 15. Long Exposures: A Poetics of Film and History
- 16. Enchanted ExperienceFurther Reading; Index; Contributors
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9798216012030
- 9780313023620
- 031302362X
- OCLC:
- 55663095
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