A Companion to the Historical Film
Language: English
Published by John Wiley & Sons, 2013
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Rosenstone and Parvulescu appropriately invite us to re-consider the relationship between history and film, enlisting all the best names in the field for this excellent and timely Companion to the Historical Film. - Claudio Fogu, University of California..
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- Title
- A Companion to the Historical Film
- Author
- RA Rosenstone
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons
- Publication year
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Gebunden
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1444337246
- ISBN 13
- 9781444337242
Broad in scope, this interdisciplinary collection of original scholarship on historical film features essays that explore the many facets of this expanding field and provide a platform for promising avenues of research.
- Offers a unique collection of cutting edge research that questions the intention behind and influence of historical film
- Essays range in scope from inclusive broad-ranging subjects such as political contexts, to focused assessments of individual films and auteurs
- Prefaced with an introductory survey of the field by its two distinguished editors
- Features interdisciplinary contributions from scholars in the fields of History, Film Studies, Anthropology, and Cultural and Literary Studies
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About the Author
Robert A. Rosenstone is Professor Emeritus of History at the California Institute of Technology. His recent scholarship has focused on the overlapping topics of new narrative forms and history’s relationship to the visual media. He has published a dozen books, including Romantic Revolutionary: A Biography of John Reed (1975) , Mirror in the Shrine: American Encounters in Meiji Japan (1988), and King of Odessa: A Novel of Isaac Babel (2005). His works on film include Visions of the Past: the Challenge of Film to Our Idea of History (1995), Revisioning History: Film and the Construction of a New Past (1995), and History on Film / Film on History (2006, 2nd edition 2012). He created the film section of the American Historical Review and has lectured around the world.
Constantin Parvulescu is research fellow at the Institute for Culture and Society at the University of Navarra. He is the author of Orphans of the East: Postwar Eastern European Cinema and the Revolutionary Subject, Indiana University Press, 2015, and has published several articles on the relationship between cinema, history, and political and economic dicsourse.
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