ISBN:
9780415910835
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (276 p)
Series Statement:
AFI Film Readers
Parallel Title:
Print version The Persistence of History : Cinema, Television and the Modern Event
DDC:
302.23/4
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
〈STRONG〉〈/STRONG〉〈STRONG〉〈EM〉The Persistence of History〈/EM〉〈/STRONG〉 examines how the moving image has completely altered traditional modes of historical thought and representation. Exploring a range of film and video texts, from 〈EM〉The Ten Commandments〈/EM〉 to the Rodney King video, from the projected work of documentarian Errol Morris to Oliver Stone's 〈EM〉JFK〈/EM〉 and Spielberg's 〈EM〉Schindler's List〈/EM〉, the volume questions the appropriate forms of media for making the incoherence and fragmentation of contemporary history intelligible
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: history happens; Part one: the historical event; 1. The modernist event; 2. Cinematic shots: the narration of violence; 3. Historical consciousness and the viewer: who killed vincent chin?; 4. ""I'll see it when i believe it"": rodney king and the prison-house of video; Part two: historical representation and national identity; 5. Antimodernism as historical representation in a consumer culture: cecil b. demille's the ten commandments, 1923, 1956, 1993
Description / Table of Contents:
6. Modernism and the narrative of nation in jfk7. Andrei rublev: the medieval epic as post-utopian history; 8. Subject positions, speaking positions: from holocaust, our hitler, and heimat to shoah and schindler's list; Part three: the end(s) of history; 9. Historical ennui, feminist boredom; 10. The future of the past: film and the beginnings of postmodern history; 11. Interrotroning history: errol morris and the documentary of the future; 12. The professors of history; Contributors; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
