| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
viii, 138 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
The Walter Prescott Webb memorial lectures ; no. 40
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Walter Prescott Webb memorial lectures ; 40.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Preface / Richard Francaviglia, Jerry Rodnitzky -- Introduction: film and history: our media environment as a new frontier / Peter C. Rollins -- In praise of the biopic / Robert Rosenstone -- History is what remains: cinema's challenge to ideas about the past / Geoff Pingree -- Crusaders and Saracens: the persistence of orientalism in historically themed motion pictures about the Middle East / Richard Francaviglia -- "The truth wrapped in a package of lies": Hollywood, history, and Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York / Daniel A. Nathan, Peter Berg, Erin Klemyk -- In defense of the filmmakers / Robert Brent Toplin. |
| Subject |
Motion pictures and history.
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Motion pictures and history. |
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Historical films -- History and criticism.
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Historical films. |
| Added Author |
Francaviglia, Richard V.
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Rodnitzky, Jerome L., 1936-
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Rosenstone, Robert A.
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| ISBN |
1585445665 cloth alkaline paper |
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9781585445660 cloth alkaline paper |
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1585445800 papaer alkaline paper |
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9781585445806 papaer alkaline paper |
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