Inside the historical film / Bruno Ramirez.

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From cinema's beginnings filmmakers have turned to the past for their stories, so much so that in many ways our historical culture is shaped more in the movie theatre than in the classroom. Inside the Historical Film argues how and why film can enrich our understanding of the past. Bruno Ramirez dis...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ramirez, Bruno (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	Montreal : McGill-Queens Univ Press, 2014.
Subjects:	Historical films > History and criticism. Motion pictures and history. Motion picture producers and directors > Interviews. Historical films. Motion picture producers and directors. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Interviews.
Genre:	Interviews. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Physical Description:	236 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format:	Book

Contents:

Preface
Part One
Introduction: From the archive to the screen
Narrating the past in words and in motion
The Filmmaker as occasional Historian
History, cinema, and immigration: The case of Montreal's Italians
Part Two
In conversation with Paola and Vittorio Taviani
Denys Arcand
Deepa Mehta
Constantin Costa-Gavras
Renzo Rossellini
Margarethe von Trotta
Conclusion.