Film, History and Memory

Using an interdisciplinary approach, Film, History and Memory broadens the focus from 'history', the study of past events, to 'memory', the processes individual, generational, collective or state-driven by which meanings are attached to the past.

Autorentext
Axel Bangert, NYU Berlin, Germany Natalia Sanjuán Bornay, Flinders University, Australia Mercedes Camino, Lancaster University, UK Jennie M. Carlsten, University of Ulster, UK Paul Cooke, University of Leeds, UK Gianluca Fantoni, Nottingham Trent University, UK Liz Greene, Dublin City University, Ireland Andrew Hennlich, Michigan University, USA Nike Jung, University of Warwick, UK Fearghal McGarry, Queen's University, Belfast, UK Alison Ribeiro de Menezes, University of Warwick, UK Robert A. Rosenstone, California Institute of Technology, USA Rob Stone, University of Birmingham, UK James Ward, University of Ulster, UK

Inhalt
List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction; Jennie M. Carlsten and Fearghal McGarry 1. A Very Long Engagement: The Use of Cinematic Texts in Historical Research; Gianluca Fantoni 2. Screening European Heritage: Negotiating Europe's Past via the 'Heritage Film'; Axel Bangert, Paul Cooke and Rob Stone 3. Confronting Silence and Memory in Contemporary Spain: The Grandchildren's Perspective; Natalia Sanjuan Bornay 4. The Enchantment and Disenchantment of the Archival Image: Politics and Affect in Contemporary Portuguese Cultural Memories; Alison Ribeiro de Menezes 5. Foundational Films: The Memorialization of Resistance in Italy, France, Belarus and Yugoslavia; Mercedes Camino 6. Amnesty With a Movie Camera; Andrew J. Hennlich 7. History, Fiction, and the Politics of Corporeality in Pablo Larraín's Dictatorship Trilogy; Nike Jung 8. Remember 1688? The Draughtsman's Contract, the 'Glorious Revolution' and Public Memory; James Ward 9. Not Thinking Clearly: History and Emotion in the Recent Irish Cinema; Jennie Carlsten 10. Music and Montage: Punk, Speed and Histories of the Troubles; Liz Greene 11. Reflections on What the Filmmaker Historian Does (to History); Robert A. Rosenstone Index