History and Film - A Tale of Two Disciplines

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title History and Film: A Tale of Two Disciplines addresses the representation of history in cinema, a much-argued debate on the need to understand cinematic history in its own terms and develop a certain vocabulary for discussing historical films, their relation to public history, and their impact on public historical consciousness. Eleftheria Thanouli does this by changing the agenda altogether - combining a macro-level perspective with a micro-level one in order to argue that cinematic history is the dominant form of historiography in the 20th century, as it succeeded in remediating and repurposing the key formal, rhetorical, and ideological practices of 19th-century professional historiography. With case studies ranging from The Thin Red Line and Life is Beautiful , to The Fog of War and The Last Bolshevik , Thanouli bridges the gap between history and film studies and lays the foundations for a new visual historiography.>

About the author

Eleftheria Thanouli is Professor in Film Theory at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, and author of Post-classical Cinema: an International Poetics of Film Narration (2009), Wag the Dog: a Study on Film and Reality in the Digital Age (Bloomsbury, 2013) and History and Film: A Tale of Two Disciplines (Bloomsbury, 2018).

Product details

• Authors: Eleftheria Thanouli, Eleftheria (Aristotle University of Thes Thanouli, Eleftheria (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Thanouli
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9781501340789
• ISBN: 978-1-5013-4078-9
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; History, HISTORY / General, Films, cinema, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism