{"product_id":"visions-of-the-past-9780674940987","title":"Visions of the Past","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRosenstone investigates how a visual medium, subject to conventions of drama and fiction, might be used as a serious vehicle for thinking about our relationship with the past. Employing such films as \u003ci\u003eReds\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJFK\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSans Soleil\u003c\/i\u003e, he considers issues like the rapport between fact and film and the documentary as visionary truth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf you're in search of a thoughtful overview of film and history as rival routes to the past, check out the essays collected in \u003ci\u003eVisions of the Past\u003c\/i\u003e...Rosenstone nicely reverses the assumption that history exists only on paper, approved and stamped by historians. -- Carlin Romano * Chicago Tribune *\u003cbr\u003e[A] fascinating analysis of the traditional and nontraditional historical film...This is solid scholarship written in a manner that makes it accessible for a wide range of readers. * Choice *\u003cbr\u003eThe pieces represent work over a wide time span and demonstrate Rosenstone's evolving attitude toward the historical movie...The author knows of his subject from various perspectives...[and] presents his arguments simply and clearly, without drowning the reader in jargon or obtuse references. Well recommended. * Library Journal *\u003cbr\u003eIn these essays, Rosenstone writes with the fervor of the convert...urging historians to admit that film can often do what books can't...Rosenstone is really rooting for modernist or post-modern cinema--the likes of Alex Cox, Chris Marker and Trinh T. Minh-ha--as the only adequate chroniclers of our fractured sense of the past. * Sight and Sound *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Personal, Professional, and (a Little) Theoretical    PART 1: HISTORY IN IMAGES    1. History in Images \/ History in Words: Reflections on the Possibility of Really Putting History onto Film   2. The Historical Film: Looking at the Past in a Postliterate Age    PART 2: THE HISTORICAL FILM    3. Reds as History   4.The Good Fight: History, Memory, Documentary   5. JFK: Historical Fact \/ Historical Film   6.Walker: The Dramatic Film as (Postmodern) History   7.Sans Soleil: The Documentary as (Visionary) Truth    PART 3: THE FUTURE OF THE PAST    8. Re-visioning History: Contemporary Filmmakers and the Construction of the Past   9.Film and the Beginnings of Postmodern History   10. What You Think about When You Think about Writing a Book on History and Film    Notes   Sources   Acknowledgments   Index","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037261693271,"sku":"9780674940987","price":30.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780674940987.jpg?v=1750935036","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/visions-of-the-past-9780674940987","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}