History on Film/Film on History / Edition 2

by Robert A. Rosenstone

Overview

History on Film/Film on History demonstrates how films can be analyzed as historical sources. It offers undergraduates an introduction to some of the first issues involved with studying historical films.

Rosenstone argues that to leave history films out of the discussion of the meaning of the past is to ignore a major factor in our understanding of past events. He examines what history films convey about the past and how they convey it, demonstrating the need to learn how to read and understand this new visual world.

This new edition places this 'classic' text in the context of work done elsewhere in the field over the ten years since this book first published, and help to renew the title for a new generation of undergraduates.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781408282557
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/19/2012
Series:	History: Concepts,Theories and Practice Series
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Professor Robert A. Rosenstone of the California Institute of Technology is a leading scholar in the controversial and growing field of history and film. His award winning biography of John Reed, Romantic Revolutionary (1975), was used as the basis of Warren Beatty's multiple Academy Award winner, Reds, on which Rosenstone served as historical consultant. He is author of several works of history, including Visions of the Past: The Challenge of Film to Our Idea of History (1995) Crusade of the Left: The Lincoln Battalion in the Spanish Civil War (1969) and Mirror in the Shrine: American Encounters with Japan (1988). He is editor of Revisioning History: Film and the Construction of a New Past (1995) and Experiments in Rethinking History (2004). He is the Founding Editor of Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: History on film. Chapter 2: To see the past. Chapter 3: Mainstream drama. Chapter 4: Innovative drama. Chapter 5: Documentary. Chapter 6: Telling lives. Chapter 7: Film maker/historian. Chapter 8: Engaging the discourse. Chapter 9: Film on history.

Editorial Reviews

"...it is timely that a prominent American historian has taken a critical look at history on film..."

"...an important book that should be read and discussed."

Taylor Downing, History Today

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