| Screening the Past: Film and the Representation of History Contributor(s): Barta, Tony (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0275954021 ISBN-13: 9780275954024 Publisher: Praeger OUR PRICE: $94.05 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 1998 Annotation: Film and television have been accepted as having a pervasive influence on how people understand the world. An important aspect of this is the relationship of history and film. The different views of the past created by film, television, and video are only now attracting closer attention from historians, cultural critics, and filmmakers. This volume seeks to advance the critical exploration scholars have recently begun. Barta begins by addressing the various ways the past is "screened" for our understanding and relates the art of film to other media. The essays that follow deal primarily with the changing perspectives of political and social developments--and changing concepts of ideology, gender, or culture--in films and television programs made for historically shaped reasons. Chapters by filmmakers explore issues of context and intent in their own projects. Scholars and general readers interested in film and cultural studies will find this an important volume. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism - History | Historiography - Language Arts & Disciplines | Communication Studies |
| Dewey: 791.436 |
| Lexile Measure: 1470 |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.30 lbs) 296 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Film and television have been accepted as having a pervasive influence on how people understand the world. An important aspect of this is the relationship of history and film. The different views of the past created by film, television, and video are only now attracting closer attention from historians, cultural critics, and filmmakers. This volume seeks to advance the critical exploration scholars have recently begun. Barta begins by addressing the various ways the past is screened for our understanding and relates the art of film to other media. The essays that follow deal primarily with the changing perspectives of political and social developments--and changing concepts of ideology, gender, or culture--in films and television programs made for historically shaped reasons. Chapters by filmmakers explore issues of context and intent in their own projects. Scholars and general readers interested in film and cultural studies will find this an important volume. |