Read Slaves on Screen: Film and Historical Vision

Slaves on Screen: Film and Historical Vision

Natalie Zemon Davis

4.9/5 (14128 ratings)

Description:People have been experimenting with different ways to write history for 2,500 years, yet we have experimented with film in the same way for only a century. Noted professor and historian Natalie Zemon Davis, consultant for the film The Return of Martin Guerre, argues that movies can do much more than recreate exciting events and the external look of the past in costumes and sets. Film can show millions of viewers the sentiments, experiences and practices of a group, a period and a place; it can suggest the hidden processes and conflicts of political and family life. And film has the potential to show the past accurately, wedding the concerns of the historian and the filmmaker. To explore the achievements and flaws of historical films in differing traditions, Davis uses two themes: slavery, and women in political power. She shows how slave resistance and the memory of slavery are represented through such films as Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus, Steven Spielberg's Amistad and Jonathan Demme's Beloved. Then she considers the portrayal of queens from John Ford's Mary of Scotland and Shekhar Kapur's Elizabeth to John Madden's Mrs. Brown and compares them with the cinematic treatments of Eva Peron and Golda Meir.This visionary book encourages readers to consider history films both appreciatively and critically, while calling historians and filmmakers to a new collaboration.From the Trade Paperback edition.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Slaves on Screen: Film and Historical Vision. To get started finding Slaves on Screen: Film and Historical Vision, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: —

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: —

Release: —

ISBN: 0307368858

Description: People have been experimenting with different ways to write history for 2,500 years, yet we have experimented with film in the same way for only a century. Noted professor and historian Natalie Zemon Davis, consultant for the film The Return of Martin Guerre, argues that movies can do much more than recreate exciting events and the external look of the past in costumes and sets. Film can show millions of viewers the sentiments, experiences and practices of a group, a period and a place; it can suggest the hidden processes and conflicts of political and family life. And film has the potential to show the past accurately, wedding the concerns of the historian and the filmmaker. To explore the achievements and flaws of historical films in differing traditions, Davis uses two themes: slavery, and women in political power. She shows how slave resistance and the memory of slavery are represented through such films as Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus, Steven Spielberg's Amistad and Jonathan Demme's Beloved. Then she considers the portrayal of queens from John Ford's Mary of Scotland and Shekhar Kapur's Elizabeth to John Madden's Mrs. Brown and compares them with the cinematic treatments of Eva Peron and Golda Meir.This visionary book encourages readers to consider history films both appreciatively and critically, while calling historians and filmmakers to a new collaboration.From the Trade Paperback edition.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Slaves on Screen: Film and Historical Vision. To get started finding Slaves on Screen: Film and Historical Vision, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

Slaves on Screen: Film and Historical Vision

Slaves on Screen: Film and Historical Vision

More Books

Secrets and Truths (The Natalie Zemon Davis Annual Lectures Series - CEU Press)

Secrets and Truths (The Natalie Zemon Davis Annual Lectures Series - CEU Press)

Emotions in History: Lost and Found (The Natalie Zemon Davis Annual Lecture Series at Central European University, Budapest)

Emotions in History: Lost and Found (The Natalie Zemon Davis Annual Lecture Series at Central European University, Budapest)

Measuring Time, Making History (Natalie Zemon Davis Annual Lecture Series at Central European University)

Measuring Time, Making History (Natalie Zemon Davis Annual Lecture Series at Central European University)

A Spectrum of Unfreedom: Captives and Slaves in the Ottoman Empire (Natalie Zemon Davis Annual Lectures Series)

A Spectrum of Unfreedom: Captives and Slaves in the Ottoman Empire (Natalie Zemon Davis Annual Lectures Series)

Men at the Center: Redemptive Governance Under Louis IX (Natalie Zemon Davis Annual Lecture Series)

Men at the Center: Redemptive Governance Under Louis IX (Natalie Zemon Davis Annual Lecture Series)

Culture and Identity in Early Modern Europe (1500-1800): Essays in Honor of Natalie Zemon Davis

Culture and Identity in Early Modern Europe (1500-1800): Essays in Honor of Natalie Zemon Davis

Hybrid Renaissance (The Natalie Zemon Davis Annual Lectures Series - CEU Press)

Hybrid Renaissance (The Natalie Zemon Davis Annual Lectures Series - CEU Press)

Summary & Study Guide The Return of Martin Guerre by Natalie Zemon Davis

Summary & Study Guide The Return of Martin Guerre by Natalie Zemon Davis

Divine Presence in Spain and Western Europe 1500-1960 (The Natalie Zemon Davis Annual Lectures Series - CEU Press)

Divine Presence in Spain and Western Europe 1500-1960 (The Natalie Zemon Davis Annual Lectures Series - CEU Press)