Camera Historica: The Century in Cinema

by Antoine de Baecque

Book Overview

Antoine de Baecque proposes a new historiography of cinema, exploring film as a visual archive of the twentieth century, as well as history's imprint on the cinematic image. Whether portraying events that occurred in the past or stories unfolding before their eyes, certain twentieth-century filmmakers used a particular mise-en-sc ne to give form to history, becoming in the process historians themselves. Historical events, in turn, irrupted into cinema...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231156502
• ISBN13: 9780231156509
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher