The Routledge Companion to History and the Moving Image takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding history in moving images. It engages this popular and dynamic field that has evolved rapidly from film and television to digital streaming into the age of user-created content.
The volume addresses moving image history through a theoretical lens; modes and genres; representation, race, and identity; and evolving forms and formats. It brings together a range of scholars from across the globe who specialize in film and media studies, cultural studies, history, philosophy of history, and education. Together, the chapters provide a necessary contemporary analysis that covers new developments and questions that arise from the shift to digital screen culture. The book examines technological and ethical concerns stemming from today’s media landscape, but it also considers the artificial construction of the boundaries between professional expertise and amateur production. Each contributor’s unique approach highlights the necessity of engaging with moving images for the academic discipline of history.
The collection, written for a global audience, offers accessible discussions of historiography and a compelling resource for advanced undergraduates and postgraduates in history, film and media studies, and communications.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: History is a Moving Image
Marnie Hughes-Warrington, Kim Nelson and Mia E.M. Treacey
Section 1: Understanding History and the Moving Image
2. From “History and film” to “Screened History”
Mia E.M. Treacey
3. Actuality is not Enough: On Historiography and Cinema
Philip Rosen
4. Moving-Image Histories and Ethics
Marnie Hughes-Warrington
Section 2: Genres and Modes
5. Patterns of Reality
Ernesto Peña and Claire Ahn
6. Remediation, Trauma, and “Preposterous History” in Documentary Film
Robert Burgoyne
7. The Hero Myth and the Cutting Room Floor
Nick Hector
8. Dramatizing Film History in the Historical Film
Jonathan Stubbs
9. Mirroring the 1980s in Contemporary Horror
Chera Kee
10. Fantastic Histories: Medievalism in Fantasy Film and Television
Avery Lafortune
11. Satire and Realism in the Historical Film
Eleftheria Thanouli
Section 3: Representation, Race and Identity
12. Counter-Temporalities and Dialectical Images in the Mass Cultural Rewriting of US Racial Histories
Alison Landsberg
13. History and Hindi Film
William R. Pinch
14. Horrific History and Black Aliveness: Travel and Liberatory Loopholes in Lovecraft Country
Lisa Woolfork
15. Pasts Refracted: Indigenous Histories on Film Beyond the Cinema
Christine Sprengler
16. The New Civil War Cinema
John Trafton
Section 4: Evolving Forms and Formats
17. Public History on Screen: From Broadcast & Network TV to the Internet Era, an Evolutionary Approach
Ann Gray
18. Live Documentary: Social Cinema and the Cinepoetics of Doubt
Kim Nelson
19. Process, Pedagogy, Prefiguration, and the Promised Land
Sara Joan Maclean
20. Teaching Difficult History with YouTube Videos
James Miles and Eve Herold
21. What If?: Experimental History on Television
Rebecca Weeks
Afterword
22. History with Images: A Conversation with Robert A. Rosenstone
Robert A. Rosenstone and Kim Nelson