History and Film: A Tale of Two Disciplines
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History and Film: A Tale of Two Disciplines
addresses the representation of history in cinema, a much-argued debate on the need to understand cinematic history in its own terms and develop a certain vocabulary for discussing historical films, their relation to public history, and their impact on public historical consciousness. Eleftheria Thanouli does this by changing the agenda altogether - combining a macro-level perspective with a micro-level one in order to argue that cinematic history is the dominant form of historiography in the 20th century, as it succeeded in remediating and repurposing the key formal, rhetorical, and ideological practices of 19th-century professional historiography. With case studies ranging from The Thin Red Line and Life is Beautiful, to The Fog of War and The Last Bolshevik, Thanouli bridges the gap between history and film studies and lays the foundations for a new visual historiography.
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History and Film: A Tale of Two Disciplines
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title

History and Film: A Tale of Two Disciplines
addresses the representation of history in cinema, a much-argued debate on the need to understand cinematic history in its own terms and develop a certain vocabulary for discussing historical films, their relation to public history, and their impact on public historical consciousness. Eleftheria Thanouli does this by changing the agenda altogether - combining a macro-level perspective with a micro-level one in order to argue that cinematic history is the dominant form of historiography in the 20th century, as it succeeded in remediating and repurposing the key formal, rhetorical, and ideological practices of 19th-century professional historiography. With case studies ranging from The Thin Red Line and Life is Beautiful, to The Fog of War and The Last Bolshevik, Thanouli bridges the gap between history and film studies and lays the foundations for a new visual historiography.
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History and Film: A Tale of Two Disciplines

History and Film: A Tale of Two Disciplines

by Eleftheria Thanouli
History and Film: A Tale of Two Disciplines

History and Film: A Tale of Two Disciplines

by Eleftheria Thanouli

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A Choice Outstanding Academic Title

History and Film: A Tale of Two Disciplines
addresses the representation of history in cinema, a much-argued debate on the need to understand cinematic history in its own terms and develop a certain vocabulary for discussing historical films, their relation to public history, and their impact on public historical consciousness. Eleftheria Thanouli does this by changing the agenda altogether - combining a macro-level perspective with a micro-level one in order to argue that cinematic history is the dominant form of historiography in the 20th century, as it succeeded in remediating and repurposing the key formal, rhetorical, and ideological practices of 19th-century professional historiography. With case studies ranging from The Thin Red Line and Life is Beautiful, to The Fog of War and The Last Bolshevik, Thanouli bridges the gap between history and film studies and lays the foundations for a new visual historiography.

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ISBN-13: 9781501340796
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date: 10/18/2018
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 296
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Eleftheria Thanouli is Assistant Professor in Film Theory at the Film Department at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam in 2005. She is the author of Post-Classical Cinema: An International Poetics of Film Narration (2009).
Eleftheria Thanouli is Professor in Film Theory at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, and author of Post-classical Cinema: an International Poetics of Film Narration (2009), Wag the Dog: a Study on Film and Reality in the Digital Age (Bloomsbury, 2013) and History and Film: A Tale of Two Disciplines (Bloomsbury, 2018).

Table of Contents

Table of Contents


Acknowledgments
Preface

Introduction:
History and Film in Parallel Orbits

Part I: Historical and Theoretical Questions

Chapter 1: The Archaeology of the Debate: Cinema and Literature as Analogies for History

Chapter 2: The Problem of Medium Specificity

Chapter 3: The Theory and Practice of History


Part II: History on Film: Narrating and Explaining the Past

Chapter 4: The Poetics of History and the Poetics of the Historical Film

Chapter 5: The Representation of History in the Fiction Film

Chapter 6: The Representation of History in the Documentary


Conclusion:
Filmic History in the Twentieth Century: a Successful Performance of Failure
Bibliography
Index
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