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| Preface | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| How to Look at an "Historical" Film | 25 | |
| The Historical Film: Looking at the Past in a Postliterate Age | 50 | |
| Making History | 67 | |
| Historical Pleasures: Gainsborough Costume Melodrama | 98 | |
| Projecting Ancient Rome | 125 | |
| "You Remember Diana Dors, Don't You?" History, Femininity, and the Law in 1950s and 1980s British Cinema | 143 | |
| The Presence of the Past: Rainer Werner Fassbinder's The Marriage of Maria Braun | 173 | |
| Schindler's List Is Not Shoah: The Second Commandment, Popular Modernism, and Public Memory | 201 | |
| Walker and Mississippi Burning: Postmodernism versus Illusionist Narrative | 218 | |
| Empire as Myth and Memory | 235 | |
| Black God, White Devil: The Representation of History | 249 | |
| Official History, Popular Memory: Reconfiguration of the African Past in the Films of Ousmane Sembene | 261 | |
| Information, Crisis, Catastrophe | 269 | |
| History, the Eternal Rerun: On Crime Story | 286 | |
| History on Television: The Making of Cold War, 1998 | 294 | |
| Ken Burns's Rebirth of a Nation: Television, Narrative, and Popular History | 303 | |
| Interrotroning History: Errol Morris and the Documentary of the Future | 316 | |
| Select Bibliography | 331 | |
| Contributors | 335 | |
| Index | 339 |
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| $99.99 | Digital |
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reviewed The Historical Film on February 01, 2016![4 Stars Rating for The Historical Film, Landy's book is a useful blessing. . . . [The book] raises queries on the uses of historical films, their genres, and what they are meant to convey, in a way that opens the reader to inquiry into current theoretical bases for film study. Thus it invites , The Historical Film](https://WonderClub.com/images/stars-4-0.gif)
The Historical Film
A little more focus on memory would've been great, but overall its a good read, makes some very good arguments.
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