Lights, camera, history : portraying the past in film / edited by Richard Francaviglia and Jerry Rodnitzky ; with an introduction by Peter C. Rollins ; contributions by Robert Rosenstone [and others]
Preface / Richard Francaviglia, Jerry Rodnitzky -- Introduction: film and history: our media environment as a new frontier / Peter C. Rollins -- In praise of the biopic / Robert Rosenstone -- History is what remains: cinema's challenge to ideas about the past / Geoff Pingree -- Crusaders and Saracens: the persistence of orientalism in historically themed motion pictures about the Middle East / Richard Francaviglia -- "The truth wrapped in a package of lies": Hollywood, history, and Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York / Daniel A. Nathan, Peter Berg, Erin Klemyk -- In defense of the filmmakers / Robert Brent Toplin
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