Research Catalog

Title

Histories on screen : the past and present in Anglo-American cinema and television / edited by Sam Edwards, Michael Dolski and Faye Sayer.

Publication

• London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

• Edwards, Sam, 1981-
• Dolski, Michael, 1978-
• Sayer, Faye

Description

xii, 338 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

• "How, as historians, should we 'read' a film? Histories on Screen answers this and other questions in a crucial volume for any history student keen to master source use. The book begins with a theoretical 'Thinking about Film' section that explores the ways in which films can be analyzed and interrogated as either primary sources, secondary sources or indeed as both. The much larger 'Using Film' segment of the book then offers engaging case studies which put this theory into practice. Topics including gender, class, race, war, propaganda, national identity and memory all receive good coverage in what is an eclectic multi-contributor volume. Documentaries, films and television from Britain and the United States are examined and there is a jargon-free emphasis on the skills and methods needed to analyze films in historical study featuring prominently throughout the text. Histories on Screen is a vital resource for all history students as it enables them to understand film as a source and empowers them with the analytical tools needed to use that knowledge in their own work."--
• "An introduction to the use of feature films, television shows and documentary footage as historical sources through wide-ranging and carefully selected case studies"--

Series Statement

Bloomsbury research skills for history

Uniform Title

Bloomsbury research skills for history.

Subjects

• History in motion pictures
• HISTORY > General
• HISTORY > United States > General
• Motion pictures > Great Britain
• Television > Great Britain
• Television > United States
• Motion pictures > United States
• HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain
• History on television

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-329), filmography (pages [293]-302) and index.

Contents

Introduction / Sam Edwards and Amy Walling -- Part One. Thinking About Film and Television: 1. The Moving Image as Primary Source: Author, Text and Context / Michael R. Dolski ; 2. The Moving Image as A Secondary Source: Truth, Authenticity and Narrative / Faye Sayer ; 3. The Moving Image as Memory: Past and Present on Screen / Sam Edwards -- Part Two. Using Film and Television: Case Studies: The Lens of History: Race, Class and Gender on Screen: 4. 'The Way We Are': Class and Britishness on Film / Marcus Morris ; 5. Were Fires Started? Exploring Gender in British Cinema of the Second World War / Corinna M/ Penniston-Bird ; 6. Screening Multicultural Britain: Blair, Britishness and Bend it Like Beckham / Sarah Ilot ; 7. Mammy, Mandingo, Django and Solomon: A Century of American Slavery in Cinema from Uncle Tom's Cabin to Twelve Years a Slave / Lydia Plath ; Reel Life and Real Life: Documenting and Narrating the Past: 8. The Empire at the Movies: India in Newsreels, c. 1911 to 1947 / Tilman Frasch ; 9. Truth and the Tudors: Screening and Interpreting the Early Modern Era / Jonathan Spangler ; 10. Hollywood Musicals Make History / Nick Gebhardt ; 11. 'Moving' Images: Educational Uses of D-Day Imagery / Michael R. Dolski -- Part Three. Making Memory and Identity: The Politics and Purpose of Film and TV: Case Studies: 12. : Superhero Films and American National Identity / Michael Goodrum ; 13. 'We Will Remember Them?': Television and British Memoray of the First World War, 1964-2014 / Sam Edwards ; 14. Presenting the Past: New Directions in Television History / Nicola Bishop.

Call Number

MFL 18-2728

ISBN

• 9781474217040
• 1474217044
• 9781474217033
• 1474217036

LCCN

2017021638

OCLC

1001807374

Title

Histories on screen : the past and present in Anglo-American cinema and television / edited by Sam Edwards, Michael Dolski and Faye Sayer.

Publisher

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Bloomsbury research skills for history

Bloomsbury research skills for history.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-329), filmography (pages [293]-302) and index.

Added Author

Edwards, Sam, 1981- editor.

Dolski, Michael, 1978- editor.

Sayer, Faye, editor.

Research Call Number

MFL 18-2728