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

Publication | Library Call Number: PN1995.2 .P47 1996

Series: AFI film readers
AFI film readers.
Format: Book
Published: New York : Routledge, 1996
Includes bibliographical references and index
Language: English
External Link: Electronic version(s) available. Hosted by ProQuest

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.
Additional Form: Electronic version(s) available internally at USHMM.
Subjects: Motion pictures and history.
Television and history.
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