Title: Bringing history to life through film : the art of cinematic storytelling /
Authors: Morey, Kathryn Anne, 1987-; Morey, Kathryn Anne, 1987-
Year: 2014
Subjects: Historical films History and criticism.; Film adaptations History and criticism; History in motion pictures.; Motion pictures and history.
Contents: Anastasia(s): Cinematic Resurrections of an Imperial Grand Duchess 1928-1997 / Marit Knollmueller -- Intertwining Mythologies: The Last King of Scotland (2006) and the Representation of Idi Amin Dada's Royalty / Lorenzo Mari -- Arthurian Myths and Modern Tellings / Anna Martin -- Last (White) Man Standing: The Philosophy of Racial Responsibility in The Last of the Mohicans and The Last Samurai / Vincent M. Gaine -- Glorifying the Past on Screen: Conquest 1453 / Dilek Özhan Kemal Koçak -- Legends, Romance, and the Intelligent Knowledge of History: Storytelling on Film and Imagining the Past / Heather Norris Nicholson -- Rockumentary and Collective Memory: A Comparison of Hype and The Occy: A Doco / Robert A. Carr -- Historical Film Reception: Mediated Legends / Vincent Bisson -- History through the Fairy Tale: Mediating the Horror of the Spanish Civil War in Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth / Enrique Ajuria Ibarra -- The Hunger Games: Past and Future Myths / Lynne Hibberd -- Evoking History through Fantasy: Pirates of the Caribbean and the Myths of the Golden Age / Mikhail L. Skoptsov -- The Spiraling Narrative Dialectic of La Vie en Rose / Noah McLaughlin -- Nostalgic Masculinity and Imperialist Fantasies in Parade's End / Enrica Picarelli -- The Interconnectedness of The Home and the World: Satyajit Ray's Poetic Rendering of the Anticolonial Struggle in Twentieth-Century Bengal / Rehuma Sazzad.