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History and film
Abrash, Barbara and Daniel J Walkowitz. 'Sub/versions of history: a meditation on film and historical narrative'. History Workshop Journal, 38 (1994).
Booth, Marlene. 'Fact and fiction in film'. Legal Studies Forum, 15 (1991): online at http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/lpop/etext/lsf/booth15.htm (Law in Popular Culture E-texts).
Cousins, Russell. 'The heritage film and cultural politics: Germinal (Berri, 1993)', in Phil Powrie (ed), French cinema in the 1990s: continuity and difference (Oxford, 1999).
Davis, Natalie Zemon. '"Any resemblance to persons living or dead": film and the challenge of authenticity'. The Yale Review, 76 (1986-87). Essential reading. Online version at http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/HistoryWired/Davis/DavisAuthenticity.html
Ellwood, David W (ed). The movies in history: visions of the twentieth century (Stroud, 2000).
Fulton, David. 'A holiday from high tone: politics and genre in Andrew Davies's adaptation of Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders', EnterText, 1.2 (2000), online journal: http://www.brunel.ac.uk/faculty/arts/EnterText/fulton.pdf.
Harper, Sue. Picturing the past: the rise and fall of the British costume film (London, 1994).
Herlihy, David. 'Am I a camera? Other reflections on films and history'. American Historical Review, 93 (1988). A sceptical view from a historian.
Jaskari, Minna. Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and the Post-Revolutionary Cuba (article on Cuban cinema and La Ultima Cena [The Last Supper])
Lindley, Arthur. 'The ahistoricism of medieval film'. Screening the Past, 3 (1998) http://www.latrobe.edu.au/www/screeningthepast/firstrelease/fir598/ALfr3a.htm. Helps to redress the emphasis on modern history films, thought-provoking for an early modernist.
Mico, Ted, John Miller-Monzon and David Rubel (eds). Past imperfect: history according to the movies (London, 1996 [originally published in New York]). Short essays on almost 100 films.
O'Connor, John E. 'History in images/images in history: reflections on the importance of film and television study for an understanding of the past', American Historical Review, 93 (1988). Helpful on how to go about reading historical films.
Perspectives Online, special issue on 'film and media' (April, 1999)
http://www.theaha.org/Perspectives/issues/1999/9904/9904FIL7.CFM
(but see also the critical response in a later issue of Perspectives by
Robert Rosenstone, http://www.theaha.org/perspectives/issues/1999/9911/9911fil1.cfm)
Rosenstone, Robert A. 'History in images/history in words: reflections on the possibility of really putting history onto film', American Historical Review, 93 (1988). An important article by another historian with hands-on experience of historical film-making.
Rosenstone, Robert A. Revisioning history: film and the construction of a new past (Princeton, 1995)
Screening the Past, special issue, 'AHR Revisited', 6 (1999). http://www.latrobe.edu.au/www/screeningthepast/current/cc6
Sobchack, Vivien. 'The insistent fringe: moving images and the palimpsest of historical consciousness'. Screening the Past, 6 (1999). http://www.latrobe.edu.au/www/screeningthepast/firstrelease/fr0499/vsfr6b.htm
Sorlin, Pierre. The film in history: restaging the past (Oxford, 1980).
Toplin, Robert Brent. 'The filmmaker as historian.' American Historical Review, 93 (1988).
White, Hayden. 'Historiography and historiophoty'. American Historical Review, 93 (1988).
Studying films
Berger, John. Ways of seeing (London, 1972).
Bordwell, David. Narration in the fiction film (1985).
Bordwell, David. Making meaning: inference and rhetoric in the interpretation of cinema (Cambridge, Mass, 1987).
De Lauretis, Teresa. Alice doesn't: feminism, semiotics, cinema (Bloomington, 1984).
Hill, John and Pamela Church Gibson. The Oxford guide to film studies (Oxford, 1998).
Monaco, James, How to read a film: the world of movies, media, and multimedia: language, history, theory (3rd edn., Oxford 2000).
Nelmes, Jill. An introduction to film studies (London, 1996).
Nichols, Bill. Ideology and the image: social representation in the cinema and other media (Bloomington, 1981).
Reference
Halliwell's film guide (various editions, regularly updated). An endless source of information and fascination.
Hayward, Susan. Cinema studies: the key concepts (London, 2000).
Katz, Ephraim. The film encyclopedia (2nd edn, 1994).
Monaco, James and James Pallot (eds). The encyclopedia of film (1991).
Thomson, David. A biographical dictionary of film (rev ed, London, 1994).
History and film
H-Film discussion list website
Modern
History in the Movies
Medieval Movies
Ancient History in the Movies (History Source Books)
History in Film covers a range of popular films and TV dramas from Ancient Rome to the Vietnam War. Unfortunately no early modern or medieval films at the time of writing, but coverage includes useful links, 'homework' etc. Aimed at schoolteachers and parents, but food for thought at higher ed levels too.
International Association for Media & History (Leeds University) with a useful set of links
Screening the Past an international e-journal of visual media and history
Scope Institute of Film Studies' online journal
Framework online journal of cinema and media
The Amistad case: 'outright plagiarism' or 'who owns history' this has information about the film, the historical background, the court case surrounding the film as well as the first court case that followed the Amistad rebellion and the contemporary laws on slavery
Making sense of films (Tom Gunning, History Matters) concerned with using early films as primary sources for their period, but nonetheless helpful
The Media History Project (concerned with considerably more than film media)
Tudor Movies a handy list of films and TV dramas relating to the Tudor period
Shakespeare on Screen special issue of the online journal Early Modern Literary Studies
Studying films (and media)
Institute of Communications Studies (Leeds university)
Media and Communication Studies (Dan Chandler) a massive, wide-ranging site
Screensite aims to provide access to film and television resources specifically for academic researchers, teachers and students
The British Film
Institute
BFI links page
Databases and Reference
Pictures of the Past: the 17th and 18th centuries in film (Sabine Biebl)
The Internet Movie Database pretty comprehensive and fully searchable; NB that the synopses are generally accurate, but not infallible
Allmovie.com also useful
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