num_pages: 276
description: 
  The Persistence of History
 examines how the moving image has completely altered traditional modes of historical thought and representation. Exploring a range of film and video texts, from The Ten Commandments to the Rodney King video, from the projected work of documentarian Errol Morris to Oliver Stone's JFK and Spielberg's Schindler's List, the volume questions the appropriate forms of media for making the incoherence and fragmentation of contemporary history intelligible.
language: English
title: The Persistence of History
titlecomplete: The Persistence of History (AFI Film Readers)
genres: Film, History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 15
publisher: Routledge