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The ability to view recorded moving pictures has had a major impact on human culture since the development of the necessary technologies over a century ago. For most of this time people have gone to the movies to be entertained and perhaps edified, but in the meantime television, the videocassette recorder (VCR), the digital versatile disk (DVD) player, the personal computer (desktop and laptop), the internet and other technologies have made watching moving pictures possible at home, in the classroom and just about anywhere else. Today, moving images are everywhere in our culture. Every day, moving picture cameras record millions of hours of activity, human and otherwise, all over the world: your cell phone makes a little video of your friends at a party; the surveillance camera at the bank keeps on eye on customers; journalists' (TM) shoulder-carried cameras record the latest from the war zone; and across the world film artists work on all kinds of movies, from low-budget independent projects to the next big-budget Hollywood blockbuster. Moving pictures have had a great influence on human culture, and this book focuses on using moving images as historical evidence. Studying history means examining evidence from the past to understand, interpret and present what has happened in different times and places. We talk and write about what we have learned, hoping to establish credibility both for what we have determined to be the facts and for whatever meaning or significance we may attach to our reconstruction of the past. Studying history is a scientific process, involving a fairly set methodology. We tend to favor written sources, and we have tended to favor writing as a means of presenting our views of the past. But historians also use all kinds of other documents and artifacts in their work of interpreting the past, including moving pictures.

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PublisherRoutledge

ISBN-100131938460

ISBN-139780131938465

eBay Product ID (ePID)65895538

Product Key Features

Number of Pages256 Pages

Publication NameHistory and Film : Moving Pictures and the Study of the Past

LanguageEnglish

SubjectHistoriography, Film / Genres / Historical, General, Film / History & Criticism

Publication Year2010

TypeTextbook

AuthorMaarten Pereboom

Subject AreaHistory, Performing Arts

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight12 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.4 in

Additional Product Features

LCCN2009-025661

Dewey Edition22

Target AudienceCollege Audience

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal907.2

Lc Classification NumberD16

Table of ContentChapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: The significance of film in history Chapter 3: The sum of its parts: understanding the medium Chapter 4: Assessing film's historical content Chapter 5: Documentary film as primary and secondary sources Chapter 6: 'Based on a True Story': History and Biography in Narrative Film Chapter 7: A Sense of Time and Place: Historical Fiction Chapter 8: Capturing the Moment: Narrative Movies as Historical and Cultural Artifacts Chapter 9: Around the World in Eighty (or So) Movies Chapter 10: Your Turn: Writing about History in Film Chapter 11: Your Research Portal: Sources on History in Film A Quick and Easy Guide to Citation Films Discussed