1st Edition
History Goes to the Movies Studying History on Film
By Marnie Hughes-Warrington
Copyright 2007
232 Pages
27 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
236 Pages
27 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
Can films be used as historical evidence? Do historical films make good or bad history? Are documentaries more useful to historians than historical drama?
Written from an international perspective, this book offers a lucid introduction to the ways films are made and used, cumulating with the exploration of the fundamental question, what is history and what is it for?
Incorporating film... Read more
Introduction: Why History on Film? 1. Words and Images, Images and Words 2. Genre 3. Pasts, Presents and Futures 4. Identity 5. Reality 6. Documentary 7. Propaganda 8. Selling History. Conclusion: Beyond 'Historiophoty': Film as History
Biography
Marnie Hughes-Warrington is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at Macquarie University, Australia. She is author of Fifty Key Thinkers on History (Routledge, 2000), 'How Good an Historian Shall I Be?': R.G. Collingwood, the Historical Imagination and Education (2003) and editor of Palgrave Advances in World Histories (2005).
