The Persistence of History: Cinema, Television and the Modern Event

The Persistence of History: Cinema, Television and the Modern Event
ISBN-10
1135205604
ISBN-13
9781135205607
Category
Social Science
Pages
284
Language
English
Published
2014-02-04
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Vivian Sobchack

Description

The Persistence of History examines how the moving image has completely altered traditional modes of historical thought and representation. Exploring a range of film and video texts, from The Ten Commandments to the Rodney King video, from the projected work of documentarian Errol Morris to Oliver Stone's JFK and Spielberg's Schindler's List, the volume questions the appropriate forms of media for making the incoherence and fragmentation of contemporary history intelligible.

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