Visions of the Past: The Challenge of Film to Our Idea of History,
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Can filmed history measure up to written history? What happens to history when it is recorded in images, rather than words? Can images convey ideas and information that lie beyond words? Taking on these questions, Robert Rosenstone offers a direction in the relationship between history and film. Rosenstone moves beyond traditional approaches, which examine the history of film as art and industry, or view films as texts reflecting their specific cultural contexts. This essay collection makes a venture into the investigation of a concern: how a visual medium, subject to the conventions of drama and fiction, might be used as a serious vehicle for thinking about our relationship with the past.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0674940970
ISBN13:9780674940970
Release Date:October 1995
Publisher:Harvard University Press
Length:271 Pages
Weight:0.75 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 5.8" x 8.6"
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A historian on film
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
Professor Rosenstone started writing on the subject of film when two of his own books were used as the basis for films, one a documentary, the other a hollywood feature. This book collects his essays, and in doing so shows his evolution from a historian writing/speaking about films in a somewhat negative light to one who realises the advantages and limitations of both media. This text showing one historian's changing opinion offers an excellect resource which helps us not only to understand the topic, but the histiography of it. Other books on this topic are often made up of single essays by historians who though maybe experts in their own field have not delt with the issue of the historical film as thoroughly as Prof. Rosenstone.
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