ISBN: 9781444337242

By Robert A. Rosenstone, Constantin Parvulescu. His works on film include Visions of the Past: the Challenge of Film to Our Idea of History (1995), Revisioning History: Film and the Const… Mehr…

By Robert A. Rosenstone, Constantin Parvulescu. His works on film include Visions of the Past: the Challenge of Film to Our Idea of History (1995), Revisioning History: Film and the Construction of a New Past (1995), and History on Film / Film on History (2006, 2nd edition 2012). The Nile on eBay   FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE   A Companion to the Historical Film by Robert A. Rosenstone, Constantin Parvulescu 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. FORMATHardcover LANGUAGEEnglish CONDITIONBrand New Publisher Description 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 filmEssays range in scope from inclusive broad-ranging subjects such as political contexts, to focused assessments of individual films and auteursPrefaced with an introductory survey of the field by its two distinguished editorsFeatures interdisciplinary contributions from scholars in the fields of History, Film Studies, Anthropology, and Cultural and Literary Studies Back Cover The first comprehensive collection of perspectives in a growing field of research, this essential volume seeks to answer questions that lie at the heart of our response to the genre. How does a narrative history film speak about the past? What does it reveal about the generation creating it? How can we tell its fictions from its truths? Can popular entertainment of this kind also be a serious purveyor of historical knowledge and understanding? Featuring contributions from international scholars in the fields of History, Film Studies, Anthropology, and Cultural and Literary Studies, this collection offers a variety of interdisciplinary approaches. A rich diversity of themes is taken into consideration, ranging from the nature of cinematic truth and the poetics and politics of the history film, to its interplay with written accounts of the past and its place in the classroom. The essays tackle inclusive subjects, such as how the form developed in different political contexts, alongside more focused assessments of individual films and auteurs. Prefaced with an introductory survey of the field by its two distinguished editors, this new Companion is a notable contribution to the field. Flap The first comprehensive collection of perspectives in a growing field of research, this essential volume seeks to answer questions that lie at the heart of our response to the genre. How does a narrative history film speak about the past? What does it reveal about the generation creating it? How can we tell its fictions from its truths? Can popular entertainment of this kind also be a serious purveyor of historical knowledge and understanding? Featuring contributions from international scholars in the fields of History, Film Studies, Anthropology, and Cultural and Literary Studies, this collection offers a variety of interdisciplinary approaches. A rich diversity of themes is taken into consideration, ranging from the nature of cinematic truth and the poetics and politics of the history film, to its interplay with written accounts of the past and its place in the classroom. The essays tackle inclusive subjects, such as how the form developed in different political contexts, alongside more focused assessments of individual films and auteurs. Prefaced with an introductory survey of the field by its two distinguished editors, this new Companion is a notable contribution to the field. Author Biography Robert A. Rosenstone is Professor Emeritus of History at the California Institute of Technology. His recent scholarship has focused on the overlapping topics of new narrative forms and history's relationship to the visual media. He has published a dozen books, including Romantic Revolutionary: A Biography of John Reed (1975) , Mirror in the Shrine: American Encounters in Meiji Japan (1988), and King of Odessa: A Novel of Isaac Babel (2005).  His works on film include Visions of the Past: the Challenge of Film to Our Idea of History (1995), Revisioning History: Film and the Construction of a New Past (1995), and History on Film / Film on History (2006, 2nd edition 2012). He created the film section of the American Historical Review and has lectured around the world. Constantin Parvulescu is research fellow at the Institute for Culture and Society at the University of Navarra. He is the author of Orphans of the East: Postwar Eastern European Cinema and the Revolutionary Subject, Indiana University Press, 2015, and has published several articles on the relationship between cinema, history, and political and economic dicsourse. Table of Contents Notes on Contributors viii Introduction 1Robert 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 11Alison Landsberg 2 History as Palimpsest: Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon (1975) 30Maria Pramaggiore 3 Flagging up History: The Past as a DVD Bonus Feature 53Debra Ramsay 4 The History Film as a Mode of Historical Thought 71Robert A. Rosenstone Part 2 Filmmakers as Historians 5 Julia's Resistant History:Women's Historical Films in Hollywood and the Legacy of Citizen Kane 91J. E. Smyth 6 Mark Donskoi's Gorky Trilogy and the Stalinist Biopic 110Denise J. Youngblood 7 The Subjects of History: Italian Filmmakers as Historians 133Marcia Landy 8 Andrzej Wajda as Historian 154Piotr Witek Part 3 Telling Lives: The Biopic 9 Oliver Stone's Nixon: The Rise and Fall of a Political Gangster 179Willem Hesling 10 Authorial Histories: The Historical Film and the Literary Biopic 199Hila Shachar 11 The Biopic in Hindi Cinema 219Rachel Dwyer 12 The Lives and Times of the Biopic 233Dennis Bingham Part 4 Cinema and the Nation 13 Gang Wars: Warner Brothers' The Roaring Twenties Stars, News, and the New Deal 257Paula Rabinowitz 14 State Terrorism on Film: Argentine Cinema during the First Years of Democracy (1983–1990) 283Mario Ranalletti 15 Fossil Frontiers: American Petroleum History on Film 301Georgiana Banita 16 Sounding the Depths of History: Opera and National Identity in Italian Film 328Roger Hillman Part 5 Wars and Revolutions 17 Generational Memory and Affect in Letters from Iwo Jima 349Robert Burgoyne 18 Post-Heroic Revolution: Depicting the 1989 Events in the Romanian Historical Film of the Twenty-First Century 365Constantin Parvulescu 19 In Country: Narrating the Iraq War in Contemporary US Cinema 384Guy Westwell Part 6 Premodern Times 20 Heart and Clock: Time and History in The Immortal Heart and Other Films about the Middle Ages 407Bettina Bildhauer 21 The Anti-Samurai Film 425Thomas Keirstead Part 7 Slavery and the Postcolonial World 22 The Politics of Cine-Memory: Signifying Slavery in the History Film 445Michael T. Martin and David C. Wall 23 The African Past on Screen: Moving beyond Dualism 468Vivian Bickford-Smith 24 Colonial Legacies in Contemporary French Cinema: Jews and Muslims on Screen 490Catherine Portuges 25 ''What's Love Got to Do with It?'': Sympathy, Antipathy, and the Unsettling of Colonial American History in Film 513Louis Kirk McAuley Index 540 Review Overall, this work offers a serious and scholarlyoverview of several genres of historical film and would make auseful addition to academic collections in particular. (Reference Reviews, 1 June 2014) Ultimately, this important collection will prove a usefuland accessible resource for researchers and pedagogues both anddeserves to be a fixture in the reading lists of students ofhistory as well as film and cultural studies. It would certainly beuseful to hear what historians have to say about these analyses andhow those in that discipline are coping with the idea that dramaticrecreations, fictions and documentaries might be treated seriouslyfor the theses they present on the experience and understanding ofthe past. (Historical Journal of Film, Radio andTelevision, 1 March 2014) Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-divisionundergraduates through faculty. (Choice, 1August 2013) Long Description The first comprehensive collection of perspectives in a growing field of research, this essential volume seeks to answer questions that lie at the heart of our response to the genre. How does a narrative history film speak about the past? What does it reveal about the generation creating it? How can we tell its fictions from its truths? Can popular entertainment of this kind also be a serious purveyor of historical knowledge and understanding? Featuring contributions from international scholars in the fields of History, Film Studies, Anthropology, and Cultural and Literary Studies, this collection offers a variety of interdisciplinary approaches. A rich diversity of themes is taken into consideration, ranging from the nature of cinematic truth and the poetics and politics of the history film, to its interplay with written accounts of the past and its place in the classroom. The essays tackle inclusive subjects, such as how the form developed in different political contexts, alongside more focused assessments of individual films and auteurs. Prefaced with an introductory survey of the field by its two distinguished editors, this new Companion is a notable contribution to the field. Review Text ?Rosenstone and Parvulescu appropriately invite us to re-consider the relationship between history and film, enlisting all the best names in the field for this excellent and timely Companion to the Historical Film."  - Claudio Fogu, University of California, Santa Barbara, John Wiley & Sons AND Sons LTD<

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[EAN: 9781444337242], Neubuch, [PU: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom], Language: English. Brand new Book. 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, Books<

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Editor: Rosenstone, Robert A. Editor: Parvulescu, Constantin, Wiley-Blackwell, Hardcover, Auflage: 1, 592 Seiten, Publiziert: 2013-01-18T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, 1.2 kg, Genres, Film, Arts & Photography, Subjects, Books, History & Criticism, Performing Arts, Politics, Philosophy & Social Sciences, Format: Illustrated, Wiley-Blackwell, 2013<

2013, ISBN: 9781444337242

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