History and film : a tale of two disciplines

Author

• Thanouli, Eleftheria

Additional Author(s)

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Publisher

New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

Language

English

ISBN

9781501340772

Series

Subject(s)

• HISTORICAL FILMS-HISTORY AND CRITICISM
• HISTORY IN MOTION PICTURES

Notes

. Bibliography: p. 253-265. Index: p. 267-279

Abstract

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.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

x, 279 p.

Dimension

23 cm.

Other Desc.

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Summary / Review / Table of Content

Introduction : History and Film in Parallel Orbits --
Part I. Historical and Theoretical Questions. 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 --
Part II. History on Film : Narrating and Explaining the Past. 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 --
Conclusion : Filmic History in the Twentieth Century--a Successful Performance of Failure.

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