Cinematic histospheres : On the theory and practice of historical films 1st ed.

Author

• Greiner, Rasmus

Additional Author(s)

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Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Springer International Publishing, 2021

Language

English

ISBN

9783030705909

Series

Subject(s)

• MOTION PICTURES
• MOTION PICTURES AND TELEVISION

Notes

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Abstract

In this Open Access book, film scholar Rasmus Greiner develops a theoretical model for the concept of the histosphere to refer to the “sphere” of a cinematically modelled, physically experienceable historical world. His analysis of practices of modelling and perceiving, immersion and empathy, experience and remembering, appropriation and refiguration, combine approaches from film studies, such as Vivian Sobchack’s phenomenology of film experience, with historiographic theories, such as Frank R. Ankersmit’s concept of historical experience. Building on this analysis, Greiner examines the spatial and temporal organization of historical films and presents discussions of mood and atmosphere, body and memory, and genre and historical consciousness. The analysis is based around three historical films, spanning six decades, that depict 1950s Germany: Helmut Käutner’s Sky Without Stars (1955), Jutta Brückner’s Years of Hunger (1980), and Sven Bohse’s three-part TV series Ku’damm 56 (2016).

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

1 online resource (xvi, 229 p.)

Dimension

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Other Desc.

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Summary / Review / Table of Content

Introduction
Fiction film and history
Audiovisual history
Film/history/experience
Modeling and perceiving
Immersion and empathy
Experience and remembering
Appropriation and refiguration

Exemplar(s)

#	Accession No.	Call Number	Location	Status
1.	00589/22	791.4 Gre C	Online !	Available