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American history and contemporary film
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ISBN: 0813536219 0813536200 Year: 2005 Publisher: New Brunswick Rutgers University Press

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Reconstructing American historical cinema : from Cimarron to Citizen Kane
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ISBN: 0813124069 9780813124063 Year: 2006 Publisher: Lexington University Press of Kentucky


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Research in film and history.
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ISSN: 26275848 Year: 2018 Publisher: Bremen : Universitä̈t Bremen, IKFK/ZeMKI,


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Film and the American presidency
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ISBN: 9780415834391 9781135049928 9781135049904 9781135049911 9781138067257 Year: 2015 Volume: 39 Publisher: New York : Routledge,

The persistence of history : cinema, television, and the modern event
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ISBN: 0415910846 0415910838 9780415910842 9780203700396 9781135205614 9781135205560 9781135205607 9780415910835 Year: 1996 Publisher: New York London Routledge

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In the aftermath of the Holocaust, the Rodney King beating, the O.J. Simpson trial, what is to count as history, and how can it be recounted? 'The Persistence of History' is an anthology of essays from major film scholars and historians which focuses on a radical contemporary challenge to historical representation in film. This challenge is brought about by what the collection terms "the modernist event"--novel historical occurrences unthinkable before the 20th century and raised to visibility, if not intelligibility, through the mass mediations of film and television. Contributors to 'The Persistence of History' look at how moving image has not only challenged, but completely altered, traditional modes of historical thought and representation. Exploring a range of film and video texts, from 'The Ten Commandments' to the Rodney King video, from the projected work of documentarian Errol Morris to Oliver Stone's 'JFK' and Steven Spielberg's'Schindler's List', the volume asks what are the appropriate forms of media for making the incoherence and fragmentation of contemporary history intelligible and meaningful? At a moment when History is said to be at an "end," why are more people than ever fascinated by "the historical"--defined as the possibility of being "in" a historical event that is documented, validated, if not invented, through mass media simply by viewing it? By focusing on the relationship between historical events and historiography, the essays in 'The Persistence of History' address this question as well as such issues as 'ennui' and boredom, national identity, violence, and the "ownership" of history. Contributors: Robert Burgoyne, Thomas Elsaesser, Sumiko Higashi, Bill Nichols, Patrice Petro, Dana Polan, Shawn Rosenheim, Robert Rosenstone, Janet Staiger, Frank Tomasulo, Hayden White, Denise Youngblood.


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L'écran des Lumières : regards cinématographiques sur le XVIIIe siècle
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ISBN: 9780729409711 0729409716 Year: 2009 Volume: 2009/07 Publisher: Oxford Voltaire foundation

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Aucun autre siècle n'a autant inspiré grand comme petit écran, de l'époque des Frères Lumière à celle de Kubrick, Benoît Jacquot et Sofia Coppola. Grand inventeur de dispositifs techniques produisant des images animées, le dix-huitième siècle est l'ancêtre en ligne directe du cinématographe.Opérer, par le cinéma, une autre approche du siècle des Lumières, tel est l'objet de cet ouvrage. Aux côtés des spécialistes des médias, de la littérature et de l'histoire culturelle, des practiciens examinent un rapport à la fois mémoriel, imaginaire et historique avec le passé. Au fonds naturel des adaptations en costumes et décors d'époque vient s'ajouter une constellation de films indirectement imprégnés d'un certain esprit des Lumières, qui participent pleinement d'un imaginaire collectif construit au présent et relevant d'un processus plus large d'actualisation.L'Ecran des Lumières dessine un champ d'étude neuf ou les investigations culturelles, esthétiques et historiques se combinent dans une visée a la fois scientifique et créatrice qui reste aujourd'hui ouverte.

Visions of the past : the challenge of film to our idea of history
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ISBN: 0674940989 0674940970 9780674940987 9780674940970 Year: 1995 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. London Harvard University Press

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Can filmed history measure up to written history? What happens to history when it is recorded in images, rather than words? Can images convey ideas and information that lie beyond words? Taking on these timely questions, Robert Rosenstone pioneers a new direction in the relationship between history and film. Rosenstone moves beyond traditional approaches, which examine the history of film as art and industry, or view films as texts reflecting their specific cultural contexts. This essay collection makes a radical venture into the investigation of a new concern: how a visual medium, subject to the conventions of drama and fiction, might be used as a serious vehicle for thinking about our relationship with the past.Rosenstone looks at history films in a way that forces us to reconceptualize what we mean by "history." He explores the innovative strategies of films made in Africa, Latin America, Germany, and other parts of the world. He journeys into the history of film in a wide range of cultures, and expertly traces the contours of the postmodern historical film. In essays on specific films, including Reds, JFK, and Sans Soleil, he considers such issues as the relationship between fact and film and the documentary as visionary truth.Theorists have for some time been calling our attention to the epistemological and literary limitations of traditional history. The first sustained defense of film as a way of thinking historically, this book takes us beyond those limitations.

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