Revisioning History: Film and the Construction of a New Past

by Robert A. Rosenstone

Book Overview

In Revisioning History thirteen historians from around the world look at the historical film on its own terms, not as it compares to written history but as a unique way of recounting the past. How does film construct a historical world? What are the rules, codes, and strategies by which it brings the past to life? What does that historical construction mean to us? In grappling with these questions, each contributor looks at an example of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691025347
• ISBN13: 9780691025346
• Release Date: December 1994
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.3"