Screening the Past: Film and the Representation of History

Abstract

Introduction Screening the Past: History Since the Cinema by Tony Barta Captain Bligh as Mythic Cliche: The Films by Greg Dening Re-screening the Past: Subversion Narratives and the Politics of History by Daniel Walkowitz Smart Jews: From The Caine Mutiny to Schindler's List and Beyond by Sander L. Gilman Stab in the Back on a Sunday Morning: The Melodramatic Imagination and Pearl Harbor by Geoff Mayer Losing the Peace: Some British Films of Postwar Adjustment by Brian McFarlane The Scent of Distant Blood: Hammer Films and History by Sue Harper Film Nazis: The Great Escape by Tony Barta Marcel Ophul's November Days: The Forming and Performing of Documentary History by Stan Jones Braveheart and the Scottish Aesthetic Dementia by Colin McArthur Borders and Boundaries: History and Television in a Postmodern World by Ina Bertand Television and Our Understanding of History: A Distant Conversation by Pierre Sorlin Letatlin and Ern Malley: History Refracted Through Impossibility and Hoax by David Perry Projected Lives: A Meditation on Biography and Cinematic Space by Kathryn Millard Long Exposures: A Poetics of Film and History by Janet Sternburg Enchanted Experience by Ross Gibson Index