Physical Description
265 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
The modernist event
Cinematic shots: the narration of violence
Historical consciousness and the viewer: Who killed Vincent Chin?
"I'll see it when I believe it": Rodney King and the prison-house of video
Antimodernism as historical representation in a consumer culture: Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments, 1923, 1956, 1993
Modernism and the narrative of nation in JFK
Andrei Rublev: the medieval epic as post-utopian history
Subject positions, speaking positions: from Holocaust, Our Hitler, and Heimat to Shoah and Schindler's List
Historical ennui, feminist boredom
The future of the past: film and the beginnings of postmodern history
Interrotroning history: Errol Morris and the documentary of the future
The professors of history.
Other Authors/Editors
Sobchack, Vivian Carol.
ISBN
0415910838
0415910846 (pbk.)
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The modernist event -- Cinematic shots: the narration of violence -- Historical consciousness and the viewer: Who killed Vincent Chin? -- "I'll see it when I believe it": Rodney King and the prison-house of video -- Antimodernism as historical representation in a consumer culture: Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments, 1923, 1956, 1993 -- Modernism and the narrative of nation in JFK -- Andrei Rublev: the medieval epic as post-utopian history -- Subject positions, speaking positions: from Holocaust, Our Hitler, and Heimat to Shoah and Schindler's List -- Historical ennui, feminist boredom -- The future of the past: film and the beginnings of postmodern history -- Interrotroning history: Errol Morris and the documentary of the future -- The professors of history.
Additional Form
Electronic version(s) available internally at USHMM.
