Cinema Against Doublethink: Ethical Encounters with the Lost Pasts of World History

by David Martin-Jones

When is it OK to lie about the past? If history is a story, then everyone knows that the 'official story' is told by the winners. No matter what we may know about how the past really happened, history is as it is recorded: this is what George Orwell called doublethink. But what happens to all the lost, forgotten, censored, and disappeared pasts of world history? Cinema Against Doublethink uncovers how a world of cinemas acts as a giant archive...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138907944
• ISBN13: 9781138907942
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"