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Broad in scope, this interdisciplinary collection of original scholarship on historical film features essays that explore the many facets of this expanding field and provide a platform for promising avenues of research. Offers a unique collection of cutting edge research that questions the intention behind and influence of historical film Essays range in scope from inclusive broad-ranging subjects such as political contexts, to focused assessments of individual films and auteurs Prefaced with an introductory survey of the field by its two distinguished editors Features interdisciplinary contributions from scholars in the fields of History, Film Studies, Anthropology, and Cultural and Literary Studies

Table of Contents:
Notes on Contributors Introduction Robert A. Rosenstone and Constantin Parvulescu Part 1: History and the Medium of Film 1. Politics and the Historical Film: Hotel Rwanda and the Form of Engagement Alison Landsberg 2. History as Palimpsest: Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon (1975) Maria Pramaggiore 3. Flagging up History: The Past as a DVD Bonus Feature Debra Ramsay 4. The History Film as a Mode of Historical Thought Robert A. Rosenstone Part 2: Filmmakers as Historians 5. Julia's Resistant History: Women's Historical Films in Hollywood and the Legacy of Citizen Kane J. E. Smyth 6. Mark Donskoi's Gorky Trilogy and the Stalinist Biopic Denise J. Youngblood 7. The Subjects of History: Italian Filmmakers as Historians Marcia Landy 8. Andrzej Wajda as Historian Piotr Witek Part 3: Telling Lives: The Biopic 9. Oliver Stone's Nixon: The Rise and Fall of a Political Gangster Willem Hesling 10. Authorial Histories: The Historical Film and the Literary Biopic Hila Shachar 11. The Biopic in Hindi Cinema Rachel Dwyer 12. The Lives and Times of the Biopic Dennis Bingham Part 4: Cinema and the Nation 13. Gang Wars: Warner Brothers' The Roaring Twenties Stars, News, and the New Deal Paula Rabinowitz 14. State Terrorism on Film: Argentine Cinema during the First Years of Democracy (1983--1990) Mario Ranalletti 15. Fossil Frontiers: American Petroleum History on Film Georgiana Banita 16. Sounding the Depths of History: Opera and National Identity in Italian Film Roger Hillman Part 5: Wars and Revolutions 17. Generational Memory and Affect in Letters from Iwo Jima Robert Burgoyne 18. Post-Heroic Revolution: Depicting the 1989 Events in the Romanian Historical Film of the Twenty-First Century Constantin Parvulescu 19. In Country: Narrating the Iraq War in Contemporary US Cinema Guy Westwell Part 6: Premodern Times 20. Heart and Clock: Time and History in The Immortal Heart and Other Films about the Middle Ages Bettina Bildhauer 21. The Anti-Samurai Film Thomas Keirstead Part 7: Slavery and the Postcolonial World 22. The Politics of Cine-Memory: Signifying Slavery in the History Film Michael T. Martin and David C. Wall 23. The African Past on Screen: Moving beyond Dualism Vivian Bickford-Smith 24. Colonial Legacies in Contemporary French Cinema: Jews and Muslims on Screen Catherine Portuges 25. "What's Love Got to Do with It?": Sympathy, Antipathy, and the Unsettling of Colonial American History in Film Louis Kirk McAuley Index


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781118322673
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • Height: 250 mm
  • No of Pages: 592
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Width: 150 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1118322673
  • Publisher Date: 20 Feb 2013
  • Binding: Other digital
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 666 gr


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