A Companion to the Historical Film [electronic resource].
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Table of Contents:
- A Companion to the Historical Film; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Chapter Introduction; Part 1 History and the Medium of Film; Chapter 1 Politics and the Historical Film: Hotel Rwanda and the Form of�Engagement; Identification and Bodily Engagement; Staging Encounters; Reaching through the Phone; Notes; References; Further Reading; Chapter 2 History as Palimpsest: Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon (1975); Kubrick's Historical Trilogy; History as Palimpsest in Barry Lyndon; Narrative Undoing: Redmond Barry's Rise and Fall; Texts and Technologies: Film as a Visual Palimpsest; Notes; References; Further ReadingChapter 3 Flagging up History: The Past as a DVD Bonus Feature; Introduction: ''A Singular DVD Experience''; Packaging the Past; History in the ''Making of''; The ''Making of'' as History; Conclusion: Acts of Showing; References; Chapter 4 The History Film as a Mode of Historical Thought; History Film/Historical Thought; Reds as History; Politics and History in Hollywood; Why Not Call It History?; References; Part 2 Filmmakers as Historians; Chapter 5 Julia's Resistant History: Women's Historical Films in Hollywood and�the Legacy of Citizen Kane; Pentimento and Its Production ContextsA (Film) Historiography of Their Own?; Julia and Charlie; ''The Year of the Woman''; References; Further Reading; Chapter 6 Mark Donskoi's Gorky Trilogy and the Stalinist Biopic; Donskoi's Gorky Trilogy: The Film Texts; The Trilogy's Reception; Donskoi's Gorky Trilogy as Literary Adaptation; Donskoi's Gorky Trilogy as Stalinist Biopic; Donskoi's Gorky Trilogy as Socialist Realism; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 7 The Subjects of History: Italian Filmmakers as Historians; Myth and/as Monumental History; Cabiria; The Historical Imaginary: The Talkies under FascismDissecting History as Melodramatic Spectacle: The Case of Visconti; Counter-History as Pedagogy: The Rise to Power of Louis XIV; History as Memory of Fascism; A Different Memory of Fascism: Counter-History II; Counter-History as Investigation and Detection in the Biopic; Summary; References; Further Reading; Chapter 8 Andrzej Wajda as Historian; Historical films by Andrzej Wajda; A Generation/Pokolenie (1954); Man of Marble/Człowiek z Marmuru (1976); Conclusions; Notes; References; Further Reading; Part 3 Telling Lives: The Biopic; Chapter 9 Oliver Stone's Nixon: The Rise and Fall of a Political GangsterNixon: A Revenge?; A Subtle Portrait?; The Interaction between Fact and Fiction; Nixon's Subjective Past; The Tragic Decline of a Political Gangster; The Biblical Symbolism; Historical and Cinematic Relevance; Notes; References; Further Reading; Chapter 10 Authorial Histories: The Historical Film and the Literary Biopic; Jane Campion's Bright Star: The history of Fanny Brawne; John Maybury's The Edge of Love: Dylan Thomas's forgotten muses; Notes; References; Chapter 11 The Biopic in Hindi Cinema; Introduction.
