The Routledge Companion to History and the Moving Image [Paperback]

The Routledge Companion to History and the Moving Image takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding history in moving images. It engages this popular and dynamic field that has evolved rapidly from film and television to digital streaming into the age of user-created content.

1. Introduction: History is a Moving Image??Section 1: Understanding History and the Moving Image??2. From History and film to Screened History? 3. Actuality is not Enough: On Historiography and Cinema? 4. Moving-Image Histories and Ethics??Section 2: Genres and Modes??5. Patterns of Reality? 6. Remediation, Trauma, and Preposterous History in Documentary Film??7. The Hero Myth and the Cutting Room Floor? 8. Dramatizing Film History in the Historical Film? 9. Mirroring the 1980s in Contemporary Horror? 10. Fantastic Histories: Medievalism in Fantasy Film and Television? 11. Satire and Realism in the Historical Film??Section 3: Representation, Race and Identity??12. Counter-Temporalities and Dialectical Images in the Mass Cultural Rewriting of US Racial Histories? 13. History and Hindi Film? 14. Horrific History and Black Aliveness: Travel and Liberatory Loopholes in Lovecraft Country??15. Pasts Refracted: Indigenous Histories on Film Beyond the Cinema? 16. The New Civil War Cinema??Section 4: Evolving Forms and Formats??17. Public History on Screen: From Broadcast & Network TV to the Internet Era, an Evolutionary Approach? 18. Live Documentary: Social Cinema and the Cinepoetics of Doubt? 19. Process, Pedagogy, Prefiguration, and the Promised Land? 20. Teaching Difficult History with YouTube Videos? 21. What If?: Experimental History on Television??Afterword??22. History with Images: A Conversation with Robert A. Rosenstone

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