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Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Robert A. Rosenstone and Constantin Parvulescu
Part 1: History and the Medium of Film
1. Politics and the Historical Film: Hotel Rwanda and the Form of Engagement
Alison Landsberg
2. History as Palimpsest: Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon (1975)
Maria Pramaggiore
3. Flagging up History: The Past as a DVD Bonus Feature
Debra Ramsay
4. The History Film as a Mode of Historical Thought
Robert A. Rosenstone
Part 2: Filmmakers as Historians
5. Julia’s Resistant History: Women’s Historical Films in Hollywood and the Legacy of Citizen Kane
J. E. Smyth
6. Mark Donskoi’s Gorky Trilogy and the Stalinist Biopic
Denise J. Youngblood
7. The Subjects of History: Italian Filmmakers as Historians
Marcia Landy
8. Andrzej Wajda as Historian
Piotr Witek
Part 3: Telling Lives: The Biopic
9. Oliver Stone’s Nixon: The Rise and Fall of a Political Gangster
Willem Hesling
10. Authorial Histories: The Historical Film and the Literary Biopic
Hila Shachar
11. The Biopic in Hindi Cinema
Rachel Dwyer
12. The Lives and Times of the Biopic
Dennis Bingham
Part 4: Cinema and the Nation
13. Gang Wars: Warner Brothers’ The Roaring Twenties Stars, News, and the New Deal
Paula Rabinowitz
14. State Terrorism on Film: Argentine Cinema during the First Years of Democracy (1983–1990)
Mario Ranalletti
15. Fossil Frontiers: American Petroleum History on Film
Georgiana Banita
16. Sounding the Depths of History: Opera and National Identity in Italian Film
Roger Hillman
Part 5: Wars and Revolutions
17. Generational Memory and Affect in Letters from Iwo Jima
Robert Burgoyne
18. Post-Heroic Revolution: Depicting the 1989 Events in the Romanian Historical Film of the Twenty-First Century
Constantin Parvulescu
19. In Country: Narrating the Iraq War in Contemporary US Cinema
Guy Westwell
Part 6: Premodern Times
20. Heart and Clock: Time and History in The Immortal Heart and Other Films about the Middle Ages
Bettina Bildhauer
21. The Anti-Samurai Film
Thomas Keirstead
Part 7: Slavery and the Postcolonial World
22. The Politics of Cine-Memory: Signifying Slavery in the History Film
Michael T. Martin and David C. Wall
23. The African Past on Screen: Moving beyond Dualism
Vivian Bickford-Smith
24. Colonial Legacies in Contemporary French Cinema: Jews and Muslims on Screen
Catherine Portuges
25. ‘‘What’s Love Got to Do with It?’’: Sympathy, Antipathy, and the Unsettling of Colonial American History in Film
Louis Kirk McAuley
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A Companion to the Historical Film, Broad in scope, this interdisciplinary collection of original scholarship on historical film features essays that explore the many facets of this expanding field and provide a platform for promising avenues of research.
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A Companion to the Historical Film, Broad in scope, this interdisciplinary collection of original scholarship on historical film features essays that explore the many facets of this expanding field and provide a platform for promising avenues of research.
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