Film, History and Memory - by Fearghal McGarry & Jennie Carlsten (Paperback)

About the Book

"Film, History and Memory examines the relationship between film and history, exploring the multiplicity of ways in which films depict, contest, reinforce or subvert historical understanding. This volume broadens the focus from 'history', the study of past events, to 'memory', the processes - individual, generational, collective or state-driven - by which meanings are attached to the past. This approach acknowledges how the significance of the historical film lies less in its empirical qualities than in its powerful capacity to influence public thinking and discourses about the past, whether by shaping collective memory, popular history and social memory, or by retrieving suppressed or marginalized histories. This study aims to contribute to the growing literature on history and film through the breadth of its approach, both in disciplinary and geographical terms. Contributors are drawn not only from the discipline of history but also film studies, film practice, art history, languages and literature, and cultural studies"--

Book Synopsis

Using an interdisciplinary approach, Film, History and Memory broadens the focus from 'history', the study of past events, to 'memory', the processes - individual, generational, collective or state-driven - by which meanings are attached to the past.

About the Author

Axel Bangert, NYU Berlin, Germany Natalia Sanjuán Bornay, Flinders University, Australia Mercedes Camino, Lancaster University, UK Jennie M. Carlsten, University of Ulster, UK Paul Cooke, University of Leeds, UK Gianluca Fantoni, Nottingham Trent University, UK Liz Greene, Dublin City University, Ireland Andrew Hennlich, Michigan University, USA Nike Jung, University of Warwick, UK Fearghal McGarry, Queen's University, Belfast, UK Alison Ribeiro de Menezes, University of Warwick, UK Robert A. Rosenstone, California Institute of Technology, USA Rob Stone, University of Birmingham, UK James Ward, University of Ulster, UK