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Book SynopsisHow does film construct a historical world? What are the rules, codes, and strategies by which it brings the past to life? What does that historical construction mean to us? This book grapples with these questions, and looks at an example of New History cinema.
Trade Review"This excellent book of 13 articles explores how films construct an image of the past... Revisioning History asks: what are the particular set of rules by which the past in represented on moving images? How does the present influence the representation of the past in films? Dealing with such topics as colonialism and Nazism, the films were made in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Latin America."--Virginia Quarterly Review
Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction31Distant Voices, Still Lives: The Family Is a Dangerous Place: Memory, Gender, and the Image of the working Class172The Home and the World: The Invention of Modernity in Colonial India443Eijanaika: Japanese Modernization and the Carnival of Time644The Night of the Shooting Stars: Fascism, Resistance, and the Liberation of Italy775Hiroshima Mon Amour: You Must Remember This916Memories of Underdevelopment: Bourgeois Consciousness/Revolutionary Context1027The Moderns: Art, Forgery, and a Postmodern Narrative of Modernism1158Radio Bikini: Making and Unmaking Nuclear Mythology1289Repentance: Stalinist Terror and the Realism of Surrealism13910Hitler: A Film from Germany: Cinema, History, and Structures of Feeling15511From the Pole to the Equator: A Vision of a Worldless Past17412Walker and Mississippi Burning: Postmodernism Versus Illusionist Narrative18813Walker: The Dramatic Film as (Postmodern) History202Notes215List of Contributors243Film Credits247Index249
