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Series
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (284 pages) : illustrations.
Description
Exploring the ways in which British films represent the past, the contributors to this study ask whose history is being represented. With reference to various films they examine issues of authenticity, nationalism, race, class, colonialism & gender.
9) Contested interpretations of the past in Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian Film: screen as battlefield
Series
Studies in Slavic literature and poetics volume Volume 60
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (203 pages).
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (411 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Description
"In the first four decades of cinema, hundreds of films were made that drew their inspiration from ancient Greece, Rome, Egypt and the Bible. Few of these films have been studied, and even fewer have received the critical attention they deserve. The films in question, ranging from historical and mythological epics to adaptations of ancient drama, burlesques, cartoons and documentaries, suggest a fascination with the ancient world that competes in...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (263 pages) : illustrations
Description
Sensing the Past explores perennial themes in American culture as manifested through the works of six of Hollywood's biggest movies stars: Clint Eastwood, Daniel Day-Lewis, Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, and Jodie Foster.
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (300 pages) : illustrations.
Description
This collection of essays addresses important questions about the relationship between fact and fiction: When does history become myth, and when does myth become legend? Does a romanticized view of history distort the reality it is trying to convey, or in capturing the "spirit" of history, does it teach history in ways that mere fact cannot? What is the impact of motion pictures on our understandings of history and on historical memory? And what of...
Author
Pub. Date
c2006
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Description
Reconstructing American Historical Cinema explores Hollywood's pivotal interpretations of national history during the height of the studio system. In a radical departure from traditional studies of film and history, J.E. Smyth looks at rarely discussed production records and scripts from studio archives, arguing that certain classical Hollywood filmmakers were actively engaged in a self-conscious and often critical filmic writing of national history....




