Screening the past : film and the representation of history / edited by Tony Barta.

Contributor(s):

Barta, Tony, 1942-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1998.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 279 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0275954021
9780275954024
9780313023620
031302362X

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Screening the past.DDC classification:

791.43/658 21

LOC classification:

PN1995.2 .S38 1998eb

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Contents:

Screening the past : history since the cinema / Tony Barta -- Captain Bligh as mythic cliché / Greg Dening -- Re-screening the past : subversion narratives and the politics of history / Daniel J. Walkowitz -- Smart Jews : from the Caine mutiny to Schindler's list and beyond / Sander L. Gilman -- A stab in the back on a Sunday morning : the melodramatic imagination and Pearl Harbor / Geoff Mayer -- Losing the peace : some British films of postwar adjustment / Brian McFarlane -- The scent of distant blood : Hammer films and history / Sue Harper -- Film Nazis : the great escape / Tony Barta -- Marcel Ophüls' November days : the forming and performing of documentary history / Stan Jones -- Braveheart and the Scottish aesthetic dementia / Colin McArthur -- Borders and boundaries : history and television in a postmodern world / Ina Bertrand -- Television and our understanding of history : a distant conversation / Pierre Sorlin -- Letatlin and Ern Malley : history refracted through Impossibility and hoax / David Perry -- Projected lives : a meditation on biography and cinematic space / Kathryn Millard -- Enchanted experience / Ross Gibson.

Summary: Addressing the various ways the past is ""screened"" for our understanding and relating the art of film to other media, this collection of essays deals with the changing perspectives of political and social development in films and television programmes made for historically shaped reasons.

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Addressing the various ways the past is ""screened"" for our understanding and relating the art of film to other media, this collection of essays deals with the changing perspectives of political and social development in films and television programmes made for historically shaped reasons.

English.

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