Shadows on the Past: Studies in the Historical Fiction Film

by Leger Grindon

Book Overview

Studying popular Hollywood films from Gone With the Wind to Reds and such distinguished European films as La Marseillaise and The Rise to Power of Louis XIV, Leger Grindon examines how historical fiction films interpret the present through a representation of the past. The historical fiction film is characterized by a set of motives and, Grindon argues, deserves to be considered a genre unto itself. Appropriation of historical events can insinuate...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566391814
• ISBN13: 9781566391818
• Release Date: June 1994
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 265 Pages