Screening the Past: Film and the Representation of History

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Film and television have been accepted as having a pervasive influence on how people understand the world. An important aspect of this is the relationship between history and film. The different views of the past created by film, television and video are now attracting closer attention from historians, cultural critics and filmmakers. This volume addresses the various ways the past is "screened" for our understanding and relates the art of film to other media. It deals primarily with the changing perspectives of political and social developments - and changing concepts of ideology, gender, or culture - in films and television programmes made for historically shaped reasons. Chapters by filmmakers explore issues of context and intent in their own projects. Scholars and general readers interested in film and cultural studies should find this of value.

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TONY BARTA is Research Fellow in History at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. - He has written numerous articles on history and film and European history, and was for many years the Director of the History and Film Program, one of the first to engage students in filmmaking as part of their work in history.