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In the fourth edition of this widely acclaimed text, Robert A. Rosenstone argues that to leave history films out of the discussion of the meaning of the past is to ignore a major means of understanding historical events.

In the fourth edition of this widely acclaimed text, Robert A. Rosenstone argues that to leave history films out of the discussion of the meaning of the past is to ignore a major means of understanding historical events.

History on Film/Film on History has established itself as a classic treatise on the historical film and its role in bringing the past to life. Examining the codes and conventions of how films tell us about the past and providing guidance on how to analyse films as historical interpretations, this book is an essential introduction to the field.

History on Film/Film on History has established itself as a classic treatise on the historical film and its role in bringing the past to life. Examining the codes and conventions of how films tell us about the past and providing guidance on how to analyse films as historical interpretations, this book is an essential introduction to the field.

Famed writer Isaac Babel visited his hometown of Odessa in the summer of 1936. Four years later, he was arrested as a spy and executed. For more than six decades, the letters and postcards Babel sent to his mother and sister were the only record of this trip. Here, the author imagines the lost manuscript Babel wrote during those weeks.

The story begins with a grandfather who heroically escaped from Russia by swimming the Pruth River to Romania--or did he? Then there are stories of another grandfather who kept a lifelong mistress, grandmothers who were ignored except in the kitchen, migrations legal and illegal from Eastern Europe to Canada to California, racketeers on one side of the family and Communists on the other, and a West Coast adolescence in the McCarthy years. All ...

Robert Rosenstone was among the first 'postmodern' historians, and remains one of the most renowned. In this honest, revealing and often funny memoir, he shows us how he got there and why. Adventures of a Postmodern Historian chronicles Rosenstone's research journeys over half a century. Beginning in the 1960s, his offbeat trajectory took him on adventures through the police states of Franco Spain and the Soviet Union, to the Shinto shrines an...

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The first comprehensive collection of perspectives in a growing field of research, this essential volume seeks to answer questions that lie at the heart of our response to the genre. How does a narrative history film speak about the past? What does it reveal about the generation creating it? How can we tell its fictions from its truths? Can popular entertainment of this kind also be a serious purveyor of historical knowledge and understanding?...

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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 ass...

Rosenstone investigates how a visual medium, subject to conventions of drama and fiction, might be used as a serious vehicle for thinking about our relationship with the past. Employing such films as Reds, JFK, and Sans Soleil, he considers issues like the rapport between fact and film and the documentary as visionary truth.

This is a bold tale of clashing cultures. This love story between a Muslim and a Jew, creates a world of characters caught in webs of historical misunderstandings which leads to violence. This book mixes contemporary and the historical worlds in a bold tale of clashing cultures. The love story between a Muslim and a Jew, documentary film director Aisha and historian Benjamin, is set in modern Spain against the vibrant and colorful background ...

This is a bold tale of clashing cultures. This love story between a Muslim and a Jew, creates a world of characters caught in webs of historical misunderstandings which leads to violence. This book mixes contemporary and the historical worlds in a bold tale of clashing cultures. The love story between a Muslim and a Jew, documentary film director Aisha and historian Benjamin, is set in modern Spain against the vibrant and colorful background ...

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