Query: history of film textbook--multiple responses

From: Henry M. Taylor <[email protected]>


These could be of use:


Mark C. Carnes (ed.): Past Imperfect. History According to the Movies.
Holt, 1996

Steven Mintz, Randy Roberts (eds): Hollywood's America. Twentieth-Century
America through Film. Wiley-Blackwell, 2010 (4th ed.)

Robert Brent Toplin: History by Hollywood. 2nd ed. U of Illinois Press,
2010.


Best,
Henry
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From: Leo Enticknap <[email protected]>


 Robert Morley writes:

"I am slated to to teach a second-year course
this summer entitled "The Twentieth Century on Film." In it, I plan to
compare cinematic depictions of past events with the historical record.
"

There are potentially three issues that you're dealing with here.

1
- The history of the medium itself.

2 - The ways in which films made
contemporaneously to the events they depict can be analysed as source
and evidence

3 - The ways in which films made significantly later than
the events they depict (i.e. historicising them) can be depicted as
source and evidence, both in relation to the event as it was understood
when it took place, and as it was understood when (and where) the film
was made.

To be clear on the methods and distinctions I would start by
setting the introduction to Chapman et al. (eds.) 'The New Film History'
(Basingstoke, 2009), and the chapters on source and evidence in Marwick,
'The Nature of History' (3rd ed., 1989, or later).

On the history of
the medium itself, Allen and Gomery, 'Film History: Theory and Practice'
(New York, 1985) would be my starting point. From there, proceed to
Salt, 'Film Style and Technology: History and Analysis' (2nd ed.,
London, 1992).

For methods and principles related to 2 and 3,
Hughes-Warrington, 'History Goes to the Movies', Rosenstone, 'History on
Film / Film on History' and Guynn, 'Writing History on Film' are all
standards.

Case study reading for 2 and 3 really depends on what
specific events and films you're covering.

Leo

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