Histories on screen : the past and present in Anglo American cinema and television Machine generated contents note: Notes on contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Part One: Thinking about Film and Television 1. The Moving Image as Primary Source: Author Text and Context Michael Dolski JPAC Central Identification Laboratory USA 2. The Moving Image as A Secondary Source: Truth Authenticity and Narrative Faye Sayer Manchester Metropolitan University UK 3. The Moving Image as Memory: Past and Present on Screen Sam Edwards Manchester Metropolitan University UK Part Two: Using Film and Television: Case Studies <u>The Lens of History: Race Class and Gender on Screen:< u> 4. CASE STUDY: The Way We Are: Class and Britishness on Film Marcus Morris Manchester Metropolitan University UK 5. CASE STUDY: Were Fires Started Exploring Gender in British Cinema of the Second World War Corinna Penniston Bird Lancaster University UK 6. CASE STUDY: Screening Multicultural Britain: Blair Britishness and Bend it Like Beckham Sarah Ilot Teeside University UK 7. CASE STUDY: Mammy Mandingo Django and Solomon: A Century of American Slavery in Cinema from Uncle Toms Cabin to Twelve Years a Slave Lydia Plath Canterbury Christ Church University UK <u>Reel Life and Real Life: Documenting and Narrating the Past:< u> 8. CASE STUDY: The Empire at the Movies: India in Newsreels c. 1911 to 1947 Tilman Frasch Manchester Metropolitan University UK 9. CASE STUDY: Truth and the Tudors: Screening and Interpreting the Early Modern Era Jonathan Spangler Manchester Metropolitan University UK 10. CASE STUDY: Hollywood Musicals Make History Nick Gebhardt Birmingham City University UK 11. CASE STUDY: Moving Images: Educational Uses of D Day Imagery Michael Dolski JPAC Central Identification Laboratory USA Part 3: Making Memory and Identity: The Politics and Purpose of Film and TV 12. CASE STUDY: We Can Be Heroes: Superhero Films and American National Identity Michael Goodrum University of Essex UK 13. CASE STUDY: We Will Remember Them: Film Television and the First World War in British Memory Sam Edwards Manchester Metropolitan University UK 14. CASE STUDY: Presenting the Past: New Directions in Television History Nicola Bishop Manchester Metropolitan University UK References Filmography Bibliography Index How as historians should we read a film Histories on Screen answers this and other questions in a crucial volume for any history student keen to master source use. The book begins with a theoretical Thinking about Film section that explores the ways in which films can be analyzed and interrogated as either primary sources secondary sources or indeed as both. The much larger Using Film segment of the book then offers engaging case studies which put this theory into practice. Topics including gender class race war propaganda national identity and memory all receive good coverage in what is an eclectic multi contributor volume. Documentaries films and television from Britain and the United States are examined and there is a jargon free emphasis on the skills and methods needed to analyze films in historical study featuring prominently throughout the text. Histories on Screen is a vital resource for all history students as it enables them to understand film as a source and empowers them with the analytical tools needed to use that knowledge in their own work