1st Edition

Approaching Recent World History Through Film Context, Analysis, and Research

By Scott C.M. Bailey Copyright 2021
212 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

212 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

212 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Approaching Recent World History Through Film: Context, Analysis, and Research explores the relationships between twentieth-century world history and film by providing analysis of a diverse range of films organized by global history topics, including war and conflict, decolonization, political economy, and long-distance travel. This insightful text describes how to analyze films as... Read more

0. How to Use This Book  1. Introduction: World History Through Film  2. Historical Biographical Films and World History  3. Filmic Approaches to Global Conflict and War: Japanese Wartime Experiences  4. Comparative Approaches to Colonization and Decolonization on the Screen  5. Film and Global Migration, Immigration, and Mobility  6. Mass Violence, Oppression, and Global Conflict on Film  7. Problems of Political Economy on Film  8. World History Films as a Basis for Research and Writing

Biography

Scott C.M. Bailey is Associate Professor of History at Kansai Gaidai University in Hirakata, Japan. He teaches courses on the history of modern Japan, history of Asia, and film and world history.