Screening the Past
Film and the Representation of History
Screening the Past
Film and the Representation of History
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Film and television have been accepted as having a pervasive influence on how people understand the world. An important aspect of this is the relationship of history and film. The different views of the past created by film, television, and video are only now attracting closer attention from historians, cultural critics, and filmmakers. This volume seeks to advance the critical exploration scholars have recently begun.
Barta begins by addressing the various ways the past is screened for our understanding and relates the art of film to other media. The essays that follow deal primarily with the changing perspectives of political and social developments—and changing concepts of ideology, gender, or culture—in films and television programs made for historically shaped reasons. Chapters by filmmakers explore issues of context and intent in their own projects. Scholars and general readers interested in film and cultural studies will find this an important volume.
Table of Contents
Screening the Past: History Since the Cinema by Tony Barta
"Captain Bligh" as Mythic Cliché: The Films by Greg Dening
Re-screening the Past: Subversion Narratives and the Politics of History by Daniel Walkowitz
"Smart Jews": From The Caine Mutiny to Schindler's List and Beyond by Sander L. Gilman
"A Stab in the Back on a Sunday Morning": The Melodramatic Imagination and Pearl Harbor by Geoff Mayer
Losing the Peace: Some British Films of Postwar Adjustment by Brian McFarlane
The Scent of Distant Blood: Hammer Films and History by Sue Harper
Film Nazis: The Great Escape by Tony Barta
Marcel Ophül's November Days: The Forming and Performing of Documentary History by Stan Jones
Braveheart and the Scottish Aesthetic Dementia by Colin McArthur
Borders and Boundaries: History and Television in a Postmodern World by Ina Bertand
Television and Our Understanding of History: A Distant Conversation by Pierre Sorlin
Letatlin and Ern Malley: History Refracted Through "Impossibility" and Hoax by David Perry
Projected Lives: A Meditation on Biography and Cinematic Space by Kathryn Millard
Long Exposures: A Poetics of Film and History by Janet Sternburg
Enchanted Experience by Ross Gibson
Index
Product details
| Published | Aug 20 1998 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 296 |
| ISBN | 9780275954024 |
| Imprint | Praeger |
| Dimensions | 9 x 6 inches |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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