A Companion to the Historical Film

Broad in scope, this interdisciplinary collection of original scholarship on historical film features essays that explore the many facets of this expanding field and provide a platform for promising avenues of research. Offers a unique collection of cutting edge research that questions the intention behind and influence of historical film Essays range in scope from inclusive broad-ranging subjects such as political contexts, to focused assessments of individual films and auteurs Prefaced with an introductory survey of the field by its two distinguished editors Features interdisciplinary contributions from scholars in the fields of History, Film Studies, Anthropology, and Cultural and Literary Studies

Broad in scope, this interdisciplinary collection of original scholarship on historical film features essays that explore the many facets of this expanding field and provide a platform for promising avenues of research.* Offers a unique collection of cutting edge research that questions the intention behind and influence of historical film* Essays range in scope from inclusive broad-ranging subjects such as political contexts, to focused assessments of individual films and auteurs* Prefaced with an introductory survey of the field by its two distinguished editors* Features interdisciplinary contributions from scholars in the fields of History, Film Studies, Anthropology, and Cultural and Literary Studies

Notes on Contributors viiiIntroduction 1Robert A. Rosenstone and Constantin ParvulescuPart 1 History and the Medium of Film1 Politics and the Historical Film: Hotel Rwanda and the Form of Engagement 11Alison Landsberg2 History as Palimpsest: Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon (1975) 30Maria Pramaggiore3 Flagging up History: The Past as a DVD Bonus Feature 53Debra Ramsay4 The History Film as a Mode of Historical Thought 71Robert A. RosenstonePart 2 Filmmakers as Historians5 Julia's Resistant History:Women's Historical Films in Hollywood and the Legacy of Citizen Kane 91J. E. Smyth6 Mark Donskoi's Gorky Trilogy and the Stalinist Biopic 110Denise J. Youngblood7 The Subjects of History: Italian Filmmakers as Historians 133Marcia Landy8 AndrzejWajda as Historian 154PiotrWitekPart 3 Telling Lives: The Biopic9 Oliver Stone's Nixon: The Rise and Fall of a Political Gangster 179Willem Hesling10 Authorial Histories: The Historical Film and the Literary Biopic 199Hila Shachar11 The Biopic in Hindi Cinema 219Rachel Dwyer12 The Lives and Times of the Biopic 233Dennis BinghamPart 4 Cinema and the Nation13 GangWars:Warner Brothers' The Roaring Twenties Stars, News, and the New Deal 257Paula Rabinowitz14 State Terrorism on Film: Argentine Cinema during the First Years of Democracy (1983-1990) 283Mario Ranalletti15 Fossil Frontiers: American Petroleum History on Film 301Georgiana Banita16 Sounding the Depths of History: Opera and National Identity in Italian Film 328Roger HillmanPart 5 Wars and Revolutions17 Generational Memory and Affect in Letters from Iwo Jima 349Robert Burgoyne18 Post-Heroic Revolution: Depicting the 1989 Events in the Romanian Historical Film of the Twenty-First Century 365Constantin Parvulescu19 In Country: Narrating the IraqWar in Contemporary US Cinema 384GuyWestwellPart 6 Premodern Times20 Heart and Clock: Time and History in The Immortal Heart and Other Films about the Middle Ages 407Bettina Bildhauer21 The Anti-Samurai Film 425Thomas KeirsteadPart 7 Slavery and the PostcolonialWorld22 The Politics of Cine-Memory: Signifying Slavery in the History Film 445Michael T. Martin and David C.Wall23 The African Past on Screen: Moving beyond Dualism 468Vivian Bickford-Smith24 Colonial Legacies in Contemporary French Cinema: Jews and Muslims on Screen 490Catherine Portuges25 "What's Love Got to Do with It?": Sympathy, Antipathy, and the Unsettling of Colonial American History in Film 513Louis Kirk McAuleyIndex 540