What is history? How do we represent it? How do our notions of history change over time? The essays in The Historical Film: History and Memory in Media probe the roles that cinema and television play in altering and complicating our understanding of historical events. The book brings together rep
Film, History and Memory
โ Scribed by Jennie M. Carlsten, Fearghal McGarry (eds.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 223
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-17
A Very Long Engagement: The Use of Cinematic Texts in Historical Research....Pages 18-31
Screening European Heritage: Negotiating Europeโs Past via the โHeritage Filmโ....Pages 32-47
Confronting Silence and Memory in Contemporary Spain: The Grandchildrenโs Perspective....Pages 48-64
The Enchantment and Disenchantment of the Archival Image: Politics and Affect in Contemporary Portuguese Cultural Memories....Pages 65-82
Foundational Films: The Memorialization of Resistance in Italy, France, Belarus and Yugoslavia....Pages 83-100
Amnesty with a Movie Camera....Pages 101-117
History, Fiction and the Politics of Corporeality in Pablo Larraรญnโs Dictatorship Trilogy....Pages 118-133
Remember 1688? The Draughtsmanโs Contract, the โGlorious Revolutionโ and Public Memory....Pages 134-150
Not Thinking Clearly: History and Emotion in the Recent Irish Cinema....Pages 151-168
Music and Montage: Punk, Speed and Histories of the Troubles....Pages 169-182
Reflections on What the Filmmaker Historian Does (to History)....Pages 183-197
Back Matter....Pages 198-209
โฆ Subjects
Cultural History; Film History; Media Studies; Film and Television Studies; Arts
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