The persistence of history : cinema, television, and the modern event / edited by Vivian Sobchack.

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.