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Colonialism
Copy editing
Cover-up
Criticism
Cultural history
Cultural studies
Debt
DIRKS
Doug (TV series)
Editorial
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Eric Hobsbawm
Essay
Feature film
Film theory
Footage
Forgery
Forgetting
Gratitude
Hayden White
Hiroshima mon amour
Historiography
Ideology
Imperialism
Indiana University Press
Italians
Journal
Latin America
Literature
Manifest destiny
Memoir
Memories of Underdevelopment
Mississippi Burning
Modernity
Monologue
Narration
Narrative
Nazism
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New Yorker Films
Newsreel
Newsweek
Nicaragua
Oxford University Press
Parody
Politics
Postcolonialism
Postmodernism
Radio Bikini
Roland Barthes
Skill
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Social theory
Surrealism
The American Historical Review
The Contributor (street paper)
The Moderns
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The Other Hand
Totalitarianism
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- ISBN 9780691025346
- Weight: 369g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jan 1995
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In Revisioning History thirteen historians from around the world look at the historical film on its own terms, not as it compares to written history but as a unique way of recounting the past. How does film construct a historical world? What are the rules, codes, and strategies by which it brings the past to life? What does that historical construction mean to us? In grappling with these questions, each contributor looks at an example of New History cinema. Different from Hollywood costume dramas or documentary films, these films are serious efforts to come to grips with the past; they have often grown out of nations engaged in an intense quest for historical connections, such as India, Cuba, Japan, and Germany. The volume begins with an introduction by Robert Rosenstone. Part I, "Contesting History," comprises essays by Geoff Eley (on the film Distant Voices, Still Lives), Nicholas B. Dirks (The Home and the World), Thomas Kierstead and Deidre Lynch (Eijanaika), and Pierre Sorlin (Night of the Shooting Stars). Contributing to Part II, "Visioning History," are Michael S. Roth (Hiroshima Mon Amour), John Mraz (Memories of Underdevelopment), Min Soo Kang (The Moderns) and Clayton R.
Koppes (Radio Bikini). Part III, "Revisioning History" contains essays by Denise J. Youngblood (Repentance), Rudy Koshar (Hitler: A Film from Germany), Rosenstone (Walker), Sumiko Higashi (Walker and Mississippi Burning), and Daniel Sipe (From the Pole to the Equator).
Robert A. Rosenstone is Professor of History at the California Institute of Technology.
