Global in scope and a practical tool for students and teachers of
history, Filmography of World History: A Select, Critical Guide To
Feature Films That Engage The Past includes description and
analysis of over 300 historical films. A companion to Grant
Tracey's Filmography of American History, this critical reference
book selects movies that represent aspects of world history from
the middle ages through the twentieth century. These films adopt as
their subject a wide range of historical events, people and
societies of Africa, Asia-Pacific, Europe and Canada, and Latin
America. Films are arranged alphabetically, with cross referencing
by geographic area, time period, and five themes: History as
Biography; Crossing Cultures; Civil, International and Sectarian
Conflict; Society: Modernization and Tradition; and Redefining
Historical Narrative. Each film entry includes production data,
current U.S. home video distributors, geographical and time
setting, plot description, and references to critical literature.
Over half of the entries provide extended analysis of the
historical interpretation the film brings to the screen.
Filmography of World History argues for the potential of feature
films to teach us about the past and its reconstruction in academe
and popular culture. The book offers an historian's perspective on
films as varied as Ararat, Black Rain, Lin Zexu, Saladin,
Winstanley, Judgment at Nuremberg, Distant Thunder, The Official
Story, Cabeza de Vaca, Newsfront, Lumumba, Daresalam, and The Great
White Man of Lambarene.
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