| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 282 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
Film and History
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Film and History.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
pt. I Royalty as Myth -- 1. Anastasia(s): Cinematic Resurrections of an Imperial Grand Duchess 1928-1997 / Marit Knollmueller -- 2. Intertwining Mythologies: The Last King of Scotland (2006) and the Representation of Idi Amin Dada's Royalty / Lorenzo Mari -- 3. Arthurian Myths and Modern Tellings / Anna Martin -- pt. II Nostalgic Utopias -- 4. Last (White) Man Standing: The Philosophy of Racial Responsibility in The Last of the Mohicans and The Last Samurai / Vincent M. Gaine -- 5. Glorifying the Past on Screen: Conquest 1453 / Orhan Kemal Kocak -- 6. Legends, Romance, and the Intelligent Knowledge of History: Storytelling on Film and Imagining the Past / Heather Norris Nicholson -- pt. III Understanding History on Film -- 7. Rockumentary and Collective Memory: A Comparison of Hype and The Occy: A Doco / Robert A. Carr -- 8. Historical Film Reception: Mediated Legends / Vincent Bisson -- pt. IV Myths and Fairy Tales. |
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9. History through the Fairy Tale: Mediating the Horror of the Spanish Civil War in Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth / Enrique Ajuria Ibarra -- 10. The Hunger Games: Past and Future Myths / Lynne Hibberd -- 11. Evoking History through Fantasy: Pirates of the Caribbean and the Myths of the Golden Age / Mikhail L. Skoptsov -- pt. V National Belonging and International Cinema -- 12. The Spiraling Narrative Dialectic of La Vie en Rose / Noah McLaughlin -- 13. Nostalgic Masculinity and Imperialist Fantasies in Parade's End / Enrica Picarelli -- 14. The Interconnectedness of The Home and the World: Satyajit Ray's Poetic Rendering of the Anticolonial Struggle in Twentieth-Century Bengal / Rehuma Sazzad. |
| Summary |
This collection of essays addresses important questions about the relationship between fact and fiction: When does history become myth, and when does myth become legend? Does a romanticized view of history distort the reality it is trying to convey, or in capturing the "spirit" of history, does it teach history in ways that mere fact cannot? What is the impact of motion pictures on our understandings of history and on historical memory? And what of the lives of the individuals it portrays? These essays introduce arguments about how storytelling within a film can help the viewer und. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Historical films -- History and criticism.
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Historical films. |
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Film adaptations -- History and criticism.
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Film adaptations. |
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History in motion pictures.
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History in motion pictures. |
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Motion pictures and history.
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Motion pictures and history. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Morey, Kathryn Anne, 1987- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bringing history to life through film. Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2014] 9781442229631 (DLC) 2013032638 (OCoLC)857717708 |
| ISBN |
1442229640 (electronic book) |
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9781442229648 (electronic book) |
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9781442229631 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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1442229632 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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