History on Film/Film on History » (1st Edition)

Professor Robert A Rosenstone of the California Institute of Technology is currently the leading scholar in the world in the controversial and growing field of history and film. He was the historical consultant on Warren Beatty's Academy Award winning film Reds.

Rosenstone is the Founding Editor of Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practiceand his other publications include Crusade of the Left: The Lincoln Battalion in the Spanish Civil War (1969), Mirror in the Shrine: American Encounters with Meiji Japan(1988), King of Odessa (2003), and The Man Who Swam Into History (2005). He also wrote the award winning Romantic Revolutionary (1975) upon which the film Reds was based.

From the despair of Titanic to the courage of Braveheart this is a wholly unique study which will challenge historians to accept film as a legitimate way of representing the past.

• Every time a new Blockbuster film is released this book is of major importance and relevance.

• Contains a clear outline covering genre, theory and specific film.

• Includes detailed examinations of different film types – American, European, Mexican and Soviet – made in different political systems and climates.

• There are no other comparable studies that deal with the nature of the historical film.