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"Film, History and Memory examines the relationship between film and history, exploring the multiplicity of ways in which films depict, contest, reinforce or subvert historical understanding. This volume broadens the focus from 'history', the study of past events, to 'memory', the processes - individual, generational, collective or state-driven - by which meanings are attached to the past. This approach acknowledges how the significance of the historical film lies less in its empirical qualities than in its powerful capacity to influence public thinking and discourses about the past, whether by shaping collective memory, popular history and social memory, or by retrieving suppressed or marginalized histories. This study aims to contribute to the growing literature on history and film through the breadth of its approach, both in disciplinary and geographical terms. Contributors are drawn not only from the discipline of history but also film studies, film practice, art history, languages and literature, and cultural studies"--

Historical films --- History in motion pictures --- Motion pictures and history

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World War, 1939-1945 --- War films --- Motion pictures and history. --- Soldiers in motion pictures. --- Prisoners of war in motion pictures. --- Motion pictures and the war. --- History and criticism.

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Biographical films --- Motion pictures and history. --- History and motion pictures --- Moving-pictures and history --- History --- Bio-pics --- Biographical videos --- Biopics --- Film biographies --- Screen biographies --- Biography --- Motion pictures --- History and criticism.

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Reading films, television dramas, reality shows, and virtual exhibits, among other popular texts, Engaging the Past examines the making and meaning of history for everyday viewers. Contemporary media can encourage complex interactions with the past that have far-reaching consequences for history and politics. Viewers experience these representations personally, cognitively, and bodily, but, as this book reveals, not just by identifying with the characters portrayed. Some of the works considered in this volume include the films Hotel Rwanda (2004), Good Night and Good Luck (2005), and Milk (2008); the television dramas Deadwood, Mad Men, and Rome; the reality shows Frontier House, Colonial House, and Texas Ranch House; and The Secret Annex Online, accessed through the Anne Frank House website, and the Kristallnacht exhibit, accessed through the Unites States Holocaust Museum website. These mass cultural texts cultivate what Alison Landsberg calls an "affective engagement" with the past, tying the viewer to an event or person and fostering a sense of intimacy that does more than transport the viewer back in time. Affect, she suggests, can also work to disorient the viewer, forcibly pushing him or her out of the narrative and back into his or her own body. By analyzing these specific popular history formats, Landsberg shows the unique way they provoke historical thinking and produce historical knowledge, prompting a reconsideration of what constitutes history and an understanding of how history works in the contemporary mediated public sphere.

Documentary-style television programs -- History and criticism. --- Historical films -- History and criticism. --- Historical television programs -- History and criticism. --- Motion pictures and history. --- Television and history. --- Documentary-style television programs --- Historical films --- Historical television programs --- Television and history.0 --- History and motion pictures --- Moving-pictures and history --- History --- History television programs --- Television historical programs --- Television programs --- Mockumentaries (Television programs) --- Mockumentary television programs