History and film
Subtitle: moving pictures and the study of the past
By: Maarten Pereboom.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Pearson
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Upper Saddle River, NJ
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780131938465
Subjects: Historical films -- History and criticism; Motion pictures and history
Notes: Includes filmography and webliography.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Moving pictures as a historical resource. Moving pictures, history, and culture; title: Studying history in film; title: The allure and peril of the "grand narrative" the interaction of moving pictures and history. Fin de siecle and the early twentieth century; title: The era of the World Wars, 1914-1945; title: The Cold War and civil rights; title: Vietnam and malaise; title: Movies and culture wars. The sum of its parts : understanding the medium; title: Production and composition of a film; title: Genre, convention, the "grand narrative" and the commercial imperative; title: Assessing a film's historical content in theory. Mapping it out : a contextual model for relating movies to history; title: Primary or secondary source? film as evidence versus film as historical argument; title: Identifying and categorizing history in film; title: For example Mutiny on the bounty : seventeeth-century history as twentieth-century cultural phenomenon; title: Documentary films as primary and secondary sources; title: "Based on a true story" : history and biography in narrative film; title: A sense of time and place : historical fiction. Visions of America's past; title: The South; title: The Western; title: Other American historical narratives; title: Capturing the moment : narrative movies as historical and cultural artifacts; title: Around the world in eighty (or so) movies; title: Your turn : writing about history in film.