Description
Book SynopsisThis book discusses the impact of visuals on the study of history by examining visual culture and the future of print, providing an analysis of photography, film, television, and computer culture. The author shows how the visualization of history can become a driving social and cultural force for change.
Trade ReviewEach chapter derives its best insights from a broad range of scholarship. This book will appeal to readers coming to its subject matter for the first time. Recommended. -- D. L. LeMahieu, Lake Forest College * CHOICE *
Historians have generally been slow to recognize how visual images have shaped public understandings of historical issues. Those who have noted this reality have generally dismissed it as an indicator of cultural decline. Mark Moss's book cogently and systematically explains why historians need to recognize the ways that students and the general public learn history through film, television, and other visual images in the contemporary world. While sensitive to the ways that visual media have distorted historical understanding, Moss's book makes an extraordinary contribution to the historical literature by illuminating how the visual revolution provides new opportunities for historians to reach broader audiences with their work. All academic historians need to read and think about this book's message. -- Wilson Warren, Western Michigan University
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Table of Contents Chapter 2 Preface Chapter 3 Introduction Chapter 4 1 Visual Culture and Historical Consciousness Chapter 5 2 Media, Memory, and History Chapter 6 3 The Future and Past of Print Culture Chapter 7 4 Photographing History Chapter 8 5 Visions of the Past: Film and History Chapter 9 6 Televising History Chapter 10 7 The Process of Holocaust Commemoration in the Media Age Chapter 11 8 Computer Technology and History Chapter 12 Conclusions Chapter 13 Bibliography Chapter 14 Index
