The Persistence of History: Cinema, Television, and the Modern Event (Afi Film Readers)

The Persistence of History: Cinema, Television, and the Modern Event (Afi Film Readers)

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Book 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.

About the Author
Vivian Sobchack is Professor on the Department of Film and Television at UCLA. Her most recent book is The Address of the Eye.

The Persistence of History: Cinema, Television, and the Modern Event (Afi Film Readers),Vivian Sobchack,Routledge,0415910846,Media Studies - Electronic Media,Motion pictures and history,Sociology,Television and history,Film theory & criticism,History: theory & methods,Television

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