History Goes to the Movies

History Goes to the Movies Dr Marnie Hughes-Warrington AIS Conference15 August 2007

Studies on the presence of film: • R. Rosenzweig and D. Thelen, The Presence of the Past, available online at: http://chnm.gmu.edu/survey/ and P. Ashton and P. Hamilton, ‘At Home with the Past: Initial Findings from the Survey’, Australian Cultural History, vol. 22, 2003 More information on the project is available online at: http://www.austpast.uts.edu.au. Revisioning questions: • When is the film set, and how can we tell? • How does time pass in the clip? • What kind of story is it? (romance, comedy, tragedy, satire) • How important is dialogue in this clip? • Remake the clip, changing one of the elements: sketch out some storyboards, write a precis, film it again • Upload to Youtube? • How was the film received? Try the Movie Review Query Engine, at mqre.com, moviemistakes.com, fanfiction.com Useful texts American Historical Review, 1991, vol. 96(4)– and every October issue thereafter includes a film review section. Baron, Lawrence, Projecting the Holocaust into the Present, New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2005. Basinger, J., The World War II Combat Film: Anatomy of a Genre, New York: Columbia University Press, 1986. Cannadine, D. (ed.), History and the Media, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. Carnes, M. (ed.), Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies, New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1995. Dwyer, R. and Patel, D., Cinema India: The Visual Culture of Hindi Film, London: Reaktion Books, 2002. Film and History, vol. 1, 1971– Kuhn, A., Dreaming of Fred and Ginger: Cinema and Cultural Memory, Washington Square, NY: New York University Press, 2002. Landy, M. (ed.), The Historical Film: History and Memory in Media, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2001. Munslow, Alun, Narrative and History, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Napier, S. J., Anime: From Akira to Princess Mononoke, New York: Palgrave, 2000. Nichols, B., Introduction to Documentary, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2001. Reeves, N., The Power of Film Propaganda: Myth or Reality?, New York: Cassell, 1999. Rosenstone, R., Revisioning History: Film and the Construction of a New Past, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995. Rosenstone, R., Visions of the Past: The Challenge of Film to Our Understanding of History, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995. Sanello, F., Reel vs Real: How Hollywood Turns Fact into Fiction, Lanham, MD: Taylor Trade, 2003. Screening the Past, no. 1, 1997, available online at: http://www.latrobe.edu.au/screening the past Toplin, B., Reel History: In Defence of Hollywood, Lawrence, KN: Kansas University Press, 2002.