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Histories on Screen
The Past and Present in Anglo-American Cinema and Television
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Histories on Screen
The Past and Present in Anglo-American Cinema and Television
About this book
How, as historians, should we 'read' a film? Histories on Screen answers this and other questions in a crucial volume for any history student keen to master source use.
The book begins with a theoretical 'Thinking about Film' section that explores the ways in which films can be analyzed and interrogated as either primary sources, secondary sources or indeed as both. The much larger 'Using Film' segment of the book then offers engaging case studies which put this theory into practice. Topics including gender, class, race, war, propaganda, national identity and memory all receive good coverage in what is an eclectic multi-contributor volume. Documentaries, films and television from Britain and the United States are examined and there is a jargon-free emphasis on the skills and methods needed to analyze films in historical study featuring prominently throughout the text.
Histories on Screen is a vital resource for all history students as it enables them to understand film as a source and empowers them with the analytical tools needed to use that knowledge in their own work.
The book begins with a theoretical 'Thinking about Film' section that explores the ways in which films can be analyzed and interrogated as either primary sources, secondary sources or indeed as both. The much larger 'Using Film' segment of the book then offers engaging case studies which put this theory into practice. Topics including gender, class, race, war, propaganda, national identity and memory all receive good coverage in what is an eclectic multi-contributor volume. Documentaries, films and television from Britain and the United States are examined and there is a jargon-free emphasis on the skills and methods needed to analyze films in historical study featuring prominently throughout the text.
Histories on Screen is a vital resource for all history students as it enables them to understand film as a source and empowers them with the analytical tools needed to use that knowledge in their own work.
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Yes, you can access Histories on Screen by Sam Edwards, Faye Sayer, Michael Dolski, Sam Edwards,Faye Sayer,Michael Dolski in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & British History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- FC
- Half title
- Bloomsbury Research Skills for History
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of figures
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction Sam Edwards and Amy Walling
- PART ONE Thinking about film and television
- 1 The moving image as primary source: Author, text and context Michael R. Dolski
- 2 The moving image as a secondary source: Truth, authenticity and narrative Faye Sayer
- 3 The moving image as memory: Past and present on screen Sam Edwards
- PART TWO Using film and television: Case studies
- 4 ‘The way we are’: Class and Britishness on film Marcus Morris
- 5 Were fires started? Exploring gender in British cinema of the Second World War Corinna M. Peniston-Bird
- 6 Screening multicultural Britain: Blair, Britishness and Bend It Like Beckham Sarah Ilott
- 7 Mammy, Mandingo, Django and Solomon: A century of American slavery in cinema from Uncle Tom’s Cabin to 12 Years a Slave Lydia Plath
- 8 The Empire at the movies: India in newsreels, c. 1911 to 1947 Tilman Frasch
- 9 ‘Truth’ and ‘interiority’: Screening and interpreting the early modern era Jonathan Spangler
- 10 Hollywood musicals make history Nicholas Gebhardt
- 11 ‘Moving’ images: Educational uses of D-Day imagery Michael R. Dolski
- PART THREE Making memory and identity: The politics and purpose of film and TV: Case studies
- 12 Superhero films and American national identity Michael Goodrum
- 13 ‘We will remember them’: Television and British memory of the First World War, 1964–2014 Sam Edwards
- 14 Presenting the past: New directions in television history Nicola Bishop
- Filmography
- Bibliography
- Index