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Title: Slaves on Screen: Film and Historical Vision by Natalie Zemon Davis ISBN: 0-674-00821-9 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: March, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent analysis
Comment: But chosing five mainstream feature films, Davis has allowed the average reader into the rather closed world of film criticism and historical analysis. A historian herself, Davis applies performance theory to examining how feature films do and can be an educational vehicle for history. Five films are examined: Spartacus, Burn!, The Last Supper, Amistad, and Beloved. The last four all deal with slavery in the "new world" of the Americas. Davis points out incidents where historical fact has been replaced with fiction, where events have taken on a modern twist, and how film-making has hindered or aided in connecting the past to the modern audience. None of the five films are perfect but Davis feels they are good overall because their goals are all to make the audience feel what the slaves or freed felt so that we can form a better understanding of a social institution that currently is frowned upon in most of the developed world. It would have been better if she spent more time on the history of the period and events each movie covered but for an early attempt at using performance theory in history, it is an excellent start.
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Title: Visions of the Past: The Challenge of Film to Our Idea of History by Robert A. Rosenstone ISBN: 0674940989 Publisher: Belknap Pr Pub. Date: August, 1998 List Price(USD): $21.50 |
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Title: Discrimination by Design: A Feminist Critique of the Man-Made Environment by Leslie Kanes Weisman ISBN: 0252063996 Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr (Pro Ref) Pub. Date: April, 1994 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Historical Film: History and Memory in Media (The Depth of Film Series) by Marcia Landy ISBN: 0813528569 Publisher: Rutgers University Press Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: The Return of Martin Guerre by Natalie Zemon Davis ISBN: 0674766911 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: August, 1984 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Gift in Sixteenth-Century France (The Curti Lectures) by Natalie Zemon Davis ISBN: 0299168840 Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Pub. Date: 09 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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