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OverviewHow, 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Dr Sam Edwards (Loughborough University, UK) , Dr Faye Sayer (University of Birmingham, UK) , Dr Michael Dolski (Joint Prisoner of War-Missing in Action Accounting Command’s Central Identification Laboratory, USA)Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic Edition: HPOD Weight: 0.671kg ISBN: 9781474217040ISBN 10: 1474217044 Pages: 354 Publication Date: 08 February 2018 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: Thinking about Film and Television 1. The Moving Image as Primary Source: Author, Text and Context, Michael Dolski (Defense POW/MIA Accounting Command, USA) 2. The Moving Image as a Secondary Source: Truth, Authenticity and Narrative, Faye Sayer (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) 3. The Moving Image as Memory: Past and Present on Screen, Sam Edwards (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) Part II: Using Film and Television: Case Studies The Lens of History: Race, Class and Gender on Screen 4. CASE STUDY: ‘The Way We Are’: Class and Britishness on Film, Marcus Morris (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) 5. CASE STUDY: Were Fires Started? Exploring Gender in British Cinema of the Second World War, Corinna Penniston-Bird (Lancaster University, UK) 6. CASE STUDY: Screening Multicultural Britain: Blair, Britishness and Bend it Like Beckham, Sarah Ilot (Teeside University, UK) 7. CASE STUDY: Mammy, Mandingo, Django and Solomon: A Century of American Slavery in Cinema from Uncle Tom’s Cabin to Twelve Years a Slave, Lydia Plath (Canterbury Christ Church University, UK) Reel Life and Real Life: Documenting and Narrating the Past 8. CASE STUDY: The Empire at the Movies: India in Newsreels, c. 1911 to 1947, Tilman Frasch (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) 9. CASE STUDY: ‘Truth’ and ‘Interiority’: Screening and Interpreting the Early Modern Era, Jonathan Spangler (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) 10. CASE STUDY: Hollywood Musicals Make History, Nicholas Gebhardt (Birmingham City University, UK) 11. CASE STUDY: ‘Moving’ Images: Educational Uses of D-Day Imagery, Michael Dolski (Defense POW/MIA Accounting Command, USA) Part III: Making Memory and Identity: The Politics and Purpose of Film and TV 12. CASE STUDY: Superhero Films and American National Identity, Michael Goodrum (University of Essex, UK) 13. CASE STUDY: ‘We Will Remember Them?’: Film, Television and the First World War in British Memor, Sam Edwards (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) 14. CASE STUDY: Presenting the Past: New Directions in Television History, Nicola Bishop (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) Filmography Bibliography IndexReviewsSam Edwards, Michael Dolski and Faye Sayer are to be congratulated for bringing together such a fascinating set of essays. It is well known that people often understand the past by what they see on the screen, but we often don't stop to consider the processes behind the persuasive effect of film and television. The contributors to this volume bring the complexity of the relationship between consumer and producer of history on screen to light in a lively and engaging manner. * Mark Connelly, Professor of Modern British History, University of Kent, UK * Today most people learn most of what they know about history from films and television. This thoughtful, wide-ranging and stimulating collection of essays explores in depth how and why this is so. An invaluable contribution to our understanding of an often misunderstood cultural phenomenon. * Jeffrey Richards, Emeritus Professor of Cultural History, Lancaster University, UK * Michael Dolski, Sam Edwards and Faye Sayer are to be congratulated for bringing together such a fascinating set of essays. It is well known that people often understand the past by what they see on the screen, but we often don't stop to consider the processes behind the persuasive effect of film and television. The contributors to this volume bring the complexity of the relationship between consumer and producer of history on screen to light in a lively and engaging manner. * Mark Connelly, Professor of Modern British History, University of Kent, UK * Today most people learn most of what they know about history from films and television. This thoughtful, wide-ranging and stimulating collection of essays explores in depth how and why this is so. An invaluable contribution to our understanding of an often misunderstood cultural phenomenon. * Jeffrey Richards, Emeritus Professor of Cultural History, Lancaster University, UK * Each chapter begins with a concise introduction, provides historical and historiographical context before moving into discussion of the particular film or television show, and often ends by exploring the specific material as a source ... [This] volume succeeds in providing educators with insights to use in the classroom. Summing Up: Recommended. All levels/libraries. * CHOICE * Sam Edwards, Michael Dolski and Faye Sayer are to be congratulated for bringing together such a fascinating set of essays. It is well known that people often understand the past by what they see on the screen, but we often don't stop to consider the processes behind the persuasive effect of film and television. The contributors to this volume bring the complexity of the relationship between consumer and producer of history on screen to light in a lively and engaging manner. * Mark Connelly, Professor of Modern British History, University of Kent, UK * Today most people learn most of what they know about history from films and television. This thoughtful, wide-ranging and stimulating collection of essays explores in depth how and why this is so. An invaluable contribution to our understanding of an often misunderstood cultural phenomenon. * Jeffrey Richards, Emeritus Professor of Cultural History, Lancaster University, UK * Author InformationSam Edwards is Senior Lecturer in American History at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He has published widely on the cultural history of twentieth century conflict. He is the author of Allies in Memory: World War II and the Politics of Transatlantic Commemoration, c.1941-2001 (2015), which was shortlisted for the Royal Historical Society’s Gladstone Prize. Michael Dolski is a historian with the Joint Prisoner of War-Missing in Action Accounting Command’s Central Identification Laboratory in the USA. Together with Sam Edwards and John Buckley, he is editor of D-Day in History and Memory: The Normandy Landings in International Remembrance and Commemoration (2014), and he is the author of D-Day Remembered: The Normandy Landings in American Collective Memory (2016). Faye Sayer is Senior Lecturer in Public History and Community Archaeology at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. She has published extensively on the value of public history and community archaeology, and she is the author of Public History: A Practical Guide (Bloomsbury Academic, 2015). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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