Visions of the Past : The Challenge of Film to Our Idea of History
Overview
Can filmed history measure up to written history? What happens to history when it is recorded in images, rather than words? Can images convey ideas and information that lie beyond words? Taking on these timely questions. Robert Rosenstone pioneers a new direction in the relationship between history and film. Rosenstone moves beyond traditional approaches, which examine the history of film as art and industry, or view films as texts reflecting their specific cultural contexts. This essay collection makes a radical venture into the investigation of a new concern: how a visual medium, subject to the conventions of drama and fiction, might be used as a serious vehicle for thinking about our relationship with the past.
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- ISBN-13: 9780674940987
- ISBN-10: 0674940989
- Publisher: Harvard University Press
- Publish Date: August 1998
- Dimensions: 8.27 x 5.51 x 0.87 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.78 pounds
- Page Count: 288
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