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Screening the past : film and the representation of history

Author: Tony Barta
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1998.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Tony Barta
ISBN: 0275954021 9780275954024
OCLC Number: 37552378
Description: xi, 279 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Screening the past : history since the cinema / Tony Barta -- Captain Bligh as mythic cliché / Greg Dening -- Re-screening the past : subversion narratives and the politics of history / Daniel J. Walkowitz -- Smart Jews : from the Caine mutiny to Schindler's list and beyond / Sander L. Gilman -- A stab in the back on a Sunday morning : the melodramatic imagination and Pearl Harbor / Geoff Mayer -- Losing the peace : some British films of postwar adjustment / Brian McFarlane -- The scent of distant blood : Hammer films and history / Sue Harper -- Film Nazis : the great escape / Tony Barta -- Marcel Ophüls' November days : the forming and performing of documentary history / Stan Jones -- Braveheart and the Scottish aesthetic dementia / Colin McArthur -- Borders and boundaries : history and television in a postmodern world / Ina Bertrand -- Television and our understanding of history : a distant conversation / Pierre Sorlin -- Letatlin and Ern Malley : history refracted through Impossibility and hoax / David Perry -- Projected lives : a meditation on biography and cinematic space / Kathryn Millard -- Enchanted experience / Ross Gibson.
Responsibility: edited by Tony Barta.

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