Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors viii
Introduction 1Robert 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 11Alison Landsberg
2 History as Palimpsest: Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon (1975) 30Maria Pramaggiore
3 Flagging up History: The Past as a DVD Bonus Feature 53Debra Ramsay
4 The History Film as a Mode of Historical Thought 71Robert A. Rosenstone
Part 2 Filmmakers as Historians
5 Julia’s Resistant History:Women’s Historical Films in Hollywood and the Legacy of Citizen Kane 91J. E. Smyth
6 Mark Donskoi’s Gorky Trilogy and the Stalinist Biopic 110Denise J. Youngblood
7 The Subjects of History: Italian Filmmakers as Historians 133Marcia Landy
8 Andrzej Wajda as Historian 154Piotr Witek
Part 3 Telling Lives: The Biopic
9 Oliver Stone’s Nixon: The Rise and Fall of a Political Gangster 179Willem Hesling
10 Authorial Histories: The Historical Film and the Literary Biopic 199Hila Shachar
11 The Biopic in Hindi Cinema 219Rachel Dwyer
12 The Lives and Times of the Biopic 233Dennis Bingham
Part 4 Cinema and the Nation
13 Gang Wars: Warner Brothers’ The Roaring Twenties Stars, News, and the New Deal 257Paula Rabinowitz
14 State Terrorism on Film: Argentine Cinema during the First Years of Democracy (1983–1990) 283Mario Ranalletti
15 Fossil Frontiers: American Petroleum History on Film 301Georgiana Banita
16 Sounding the Depths of History: Opera and National Identity in Italian Film 328Roger Hillman
Part 5 Wars and Revolutions
17 Generational Memory and Affect in Letters from Iwo Jima 349Robert Burgoyne
18 Post-Heroic Revolution: Depicting the 1989 Events in the Romanian Historical Film of the Twenty-First Century 365Constantin Parvulescu
19 In Country: Narrating the Iraq War in Contemporary US Cinema 384Guy Westwell
Part 6 Premodern Times
20 Heart and Clock: Time and History in The Immortal Heart and Other Films about the Middle Ages 407Bettina Bildhauer
21 The Anti-Samurai Film 425Thomas Keirstead
Part 7 Slavery and the Postcolonial World
22 The Politics of Cine-Memory: Signifying Slavery in the History Film 445Michael T. Martin and David C. Wall
23 The African Past on Screen: Moving beyond Dualism 468Vivian Bickford-Smith
24 Colonial Legacies in Contemporary French Cinema: Jews and Muslims on Screen 490Catherine Portuges
25 ‘‘What’s Love Got to Do with It?’’: Sympathy, Antipathy, and the Unsettling of Colonial American History in Film 513Louis Kirk McAuley
Index 540