1st Edition
History and Film Moving Pictures and the Study of the Past
By Maarten Pereboom
Copyright 2011
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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The ability to view recorded moving pictures has had a major impact on human culture since the development of the necessary technologies over a century ago. For most of this time people have gone to the movies to be entertained and perhaps edified, but in the meantime television, the videocassette recorder (VCR), the digital versatile disk (DVD) player, the personal computer (desktop and laptop),... Read more
Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: The significance of film in history Chapter 3: The sum of its parts: understanding the medium Chapter 4: Assessing film's historical content Chapter 5: Documentary film as primary and secondary sources Chapter 6: 'Based on a True Story': History and Biography in Narrative Film Chapter 7: A Sense of Time and Place: Historical Fiction Chapter 8: Capturing the Moment: Narrative Movies as Historical and Cultural Artifacts Chapter 9: Around the World in Eighty (or So) Movies Chapter 10: Your Turn: Writing about History in Film Chapter 11: Your Research Portal: Sources on History in Film A Quick and Easy Guide to Citation Films Discussed
Biography
Maarten Pereboom is professor of history and dean of the Fulton School of Liberal Arts at Salisbury Univrsity. He earned his doctorate at Yale University, and his first book, Democracies at the Turning Point: Britain, France, and the End of the Postwar Order, 1928-1933, earned Choice Magazine' s Outstanding Academic Book Award in 1996. In 1998 he won Salisbury University's Distinguished Faculty Award. He lives in Salisbury, Maryland, with his wife and their two sons.
