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The historical film : history and memory in media / edited and with an introduction by Marcia Landy.

Contributor Landy, Marcia, 1931-

Imprint:New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2001.

Descriptionviii, 350 p. ; 24 cm.

Note:How to Look at an "Historical" Film / Pierre Sorlin. - The Historical Film: Looking at the Past in a Postliterate Age / Robert A. Rosenstone. - Making History / George E. Custen. - Historical Pleasures: Gainsborough Costume Melodrama / Sue Harper. - Projecting Ancient Rome / Maria Wyke. - "You Remember Diana Dors, Don't You?" History, Femininity, and the Law in 1950s and 1980s British Cinema / Marcia Landy. - The Presence of the Past: Rainer Werner Fassbinder's The Marriage of Maria Braun / Anton Kaes. - Schindler's List Is Not Shoah: The Second Commandment, Popular Modernism, and Public Memory / Miriam Bratu Hansen. - Walker and Mississippi Burning: Postmodernism versus Illusionist Narrative / Sumiko Higashi. - Empire as Myth and Memory / Naomi Greene. - Black God, White Devil: The Representation of History / Ismail Xavier. - Official History, Popular Memory: Reconfiguration of the African Past in the Films of Ousmane Sembene / Mbye Cham. - Information, Crisis, Catastrophe / Mary Ann Doane. - History, the Eternal Rerun: On Crime Story / Richard Dienst. - History on Television: The Making of Cold War, 1998 / Taylor Downing. - Ken Burns's Rebirth of a Nation: Television, Narrative, and Popular History / Gary Edgerton. - Interrotroning History: Errol Morris and the Documentary of the Future / Shawn Rosenheim.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-334) and index.

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Landy, Marcia, 1931-
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Rutgers depth of field series
Subject:
Historical films -- History and criticism.