Book description
Broad in scope, this interdisciplinary collection of original
scholarship on historical film features essays that explore the many
facets of this expanding field and provide a platform for promising
avenues of research.
- Offers a unique collection of cutting edge research that questions
the intention behind and influence of historical film
- Essays range in scope from inclusive broad-ranging subjects such
as political contexts, to focused assessments of individual films
and auteurs
- Prefaced with an introductory survey of the field by its two
distinguished editors
- Features interdisciplinary contributions from scholars in the
fields of History, Film Studies, Anthropology, and Cultural and
Literary Studies
Robert A. Rosenstone is Professor of History at the California
Institute of Technology. His recent scholarship has focused on the
overlapping topics of new narrative forms and history's relationship
to the visual media. He has published a dozen books, including
Romantic Revolutionary: A Biography of John Reed (1975) ,
Mirror in the Shrine: American Encounters in Meiji Japan
(1988), and King of Odessa: A Novel of Isaac Babel (2005). His
works on film include Visions of the Past: the Challenge of Film to
Our Idea of History (1995), Revisioning History: Film and the
Construction of a New Past (1995), and History on Film / Film
on History (2006, 2nd edition 2012). He created the film section
of the American Historical Review and has lectured around the world.
Constantin Parvulescu is Senior Lecturer in European and Film
Studies at West University of Timisoara, Romania. An emerging voice in
the field of film and cultural studies, he has published extensively
on issues of film and history and cinematic realism in journals such
as Camera Obscura, Jump Cut, Central Europe, and
Italian Studies.
