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082 _a791.43658
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245 2 _aA companion to the historical film/
_cedited by Robert A. Rosenstone and Constantin Parvulescu.
260 _aMalden:
_bWiley-Blackwell,
_c2013.
300 _axiii, 575 p. :
_bill. ;
_c26 cm.
505 _aIntroduction / Robert A. Rosenstone and Constantin Parvulescu -- Part 1. History and the medium of film. Politics and the historical film : Hotel Rwanda and the form of engagement / Alison Landsberg ; History as palimpsest : Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon (1975) / Maria Pramaggiore ; Flagging up history : the past as a DVD bonus feature / Debra Ramsay ; The history film as a mode of historical thought / Robert A. Rosenstone -- Part 2. Filmmakers as historians. Julia's resistant history: women's historical films in Hollywood and the legacy of Citizen Kane / J.E. Smyth ; Mark Donskoi's Gorky trilogy and the Stalinist biopic / Denise J. Youngblood ; The subjects of history : Italian filmmakers as historians / Marcia Landy ; Andrzej Wajda as historian / Piotr Witek -- Part 3. Telling lives : the biopic. Oliver Stone's Nixon : the rise and fall of a political gangster / Willem Hesling ; Authorial histories : the historical film and the literary biopic / Hila Shachar ; The biopic in Hindi cinema / Rachel Dwyer ; The lives and times of the biopic / Dennis Bingham -- Part 4. Cinema and the nation. Gang wars : Warner Brothers' The roaring Twenties stars, news, and the New Deal / Paula Rabinowitz ; State terrorism on film : Argentine cinema during the first years of democracy (1983-1990) / Mario Ranalletti ; Fossil frontiers : American petroleum history on film / Georgiana Banita ; Sounding the depths of history : opera and national identity in Italian film / Roger Hillman -- Part 5. Wars and revolutions. Generational memory and affect in Letters from Iwo Jima / Robert Burgoyne ; Post-heroic revolution : depicting the 1989 events in the Romanian historical film of the twenty-first century / Constantin Parvulescu ; In country : narrating the Iraq War in contemporary US cinema / Guy Westwell -- Part 6. Premodern times. Heart and clock: time and history in The immortal heart and other films about the Middle Ages / Bettina Bildhauer ; The anti-samurai film / Thomas Keirstead -- Part 7. Slavery and the postcolonial world. The politics of cine-memory : signifying slavery in the history film / Michael T. Martin and David C. Wall ; The African past on screen : moving beyond dualism / Vivian Bickford-Smith ; Colonial legacies in contemporary French cinema : Jews and Muslims on screen / Catherine Portuges ; "What's love got to do with it?" : sympathy, antipathy, and the unsettling of Colonial American history in film / Louis Kirk McAuley.
650 _aMotion pictures and history
700 _aRosenstone, Robert A., ed.
700 _aParvulescu, Constantin, ed.
942 _cWB16
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