Pereboom, Maarten L., 1962-

History and film : moving pictures and the study of the past / Maarten Pereboom. - Custom Edition of University of Waterloo - Boston : Pearson c2011. - 200p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes filmography and webliography. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Moving pictures as a historical resource -- The interaction of moving pictures and history -- The sum of its parts : understanding the medium -- Assessing a film's historical content -- Documentary films as primary and secondary sources -- "Based on a true story" : history and biography in narrative film -- A sense of time and place : historical fiction -- Capturing the moment : narrative movies as historical and cultural artifacts -- Around the world in eighty (or so) movies -- Your turn : writing about history in film -- Your research portal : sources on history in film.

9781256429593 9780131938465 (pbk.) 0131938460 (pbk.)

2009025661


Historical films--History and criticism.
Motion pictures and history.

PN1995.9.H5 / P45 2011

791.43/658

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