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Histories on Screen (Bloomsbury Research Skills for History): The Past and Present in Anglo-American Cinema and Television - Hardcover

Sam Edwards; Faye Sayer; Michael Dolski

 
9781474217040: Histories on Screen (Bloomsbury Research Skills for History): The Past and Present in Anglo-American Cinema and Television
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1474217044 ISBN 13: 9781474217040
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018

Synopsis

How, as historians, should we read a film? Histories on Screen answers this and other questions in a crucial volume for any history student keen to master source use. The book begins with a theoretical Thinking about Film section that explores the ways in which films can be analyzed and interrogated as either primary sources, secondary sources or indeed as both. The much larger Using Film segment of the book then offers engaging case studies which put this theory into practice. Topics including gender, class, race, war, propaganda, national identity and memory all receive good coverage in what is an eclectic multi-contributor volume. Documentaries, films and television from Britain and the United States are examined and there is a jargon-free emphasis on the skills and methods needed to analyze films in historical study featuring prominently throughout the text. Histories on Screen is a vital resource for all history students as it enables them to understand film as a source and empowers them with the analytical tools needed to use that knowledge in their own work.

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About the Author

Sam Edwards is Lecturer in American History at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He has published essays discussing various aspects of American war commemoration and he is the co-editor, along with Michael Dolski and John Buckley, of D-Day in History and Memory: The Normandy Landings in International Remembrance and Commemoration (2014). Faye Sayer is Senior Lecturer in Public History and Community Archaeology at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. Michael Dolski is a historian with the Joint Prisoner of War-Missing in Action Accounting Command's Central Identification Laboratory in the USA. Together with Sam Edwards and John Buckley, he is editor of D-Day in History and Memory: The Normandy Landings in International Remembrance and Commemoration (2014).

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Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date
2018
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1474217044
ISBN 13 
9781474217040
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
368
Editor
Sam Edwards, Faye Sayer, Michael Dolski