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The Historian and Film

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Historian and Film
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Paul Smith
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:220
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152
Category/GenreFilms and cinema
ISBN/Barcode 9780521089395
ClassificationsDewey:907.2
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 6 November 2008
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Film is increasingly engaging the attention of students of history at all levels. In its manifold forms from the newsreel to the 'feature', it is a major source of evidence for, and an important influence upon, contemporary history, and a vivid means of bringing the recent past to life. For earlier periods, it provides a medium in which the often widely dispersed visual evidences of the past can be brought together for the student. It offers the historian a new form in which to interpret and present his subject, and, as television has shown, it is by far the most important vehicle for the presentation of history to mass audiences. The analysis of its content and impact and the exploration of its uses are especially fitted to bring history into an interdisciplinary relationship with other fields, from sociology to the visual arts.