| Description |
1 online resource (x, 279 pages) |
| Contents |
The archaeology of the debate: cinema and literature as analogies for history -- Media specificity and the analogy of the digital -- The theory and practice of history -- The poetics of history and the poetics of the historical film -- The representation of history in the fiction film -- The representation of history in the documentary |
| Summary |
"History and Film: A Tale of Two Disciplines addresses the representation of history in cinema, a much-argued debate on the need to understand cinematic history in its own terms and develop a certain vocabulary for discussing historical films, their relation to public history, and their impact on public historical consciousness. Eleftheria Thanouli does this by changing the agenda altogether - combining a macro-level perspective with a micro-level one in order to argue that cinematic history is the dominant form of historiography in the 20th century, as it succeeded in remediating and repurposing the key formal, rhetorical, and ideological practices of 19th-century professional historiography. With case studies ranging from The Thin Red Line and Life is Beautiful, to The Fog of War and The Last Bolshevik, Thanouli bridges the gap between history and film studies and lays the foundations for a new visual historiography."--Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 06, 2020) |
| Subject |
Historical films -- United States -- History and criticism
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Motion pictures and history.
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Historical films.
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Films, cinema.
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Film theory & criticism.
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History.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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Motion pictures and history
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Historical films
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Motion pictures
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Historical films
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Historical films.
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Films historiques.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781501340802 |
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1501340808 |
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9781501340796 |
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1501340794 |
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9781501340819 |
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1501340816 |
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