Cinema and History (Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Studies) - Softcover

Ferro, Marc

Softcover

ISBN 10: 081431905X ISBN 13: 9780814319055

Publisher: Wayne State University Press, 1988

Synopsis

Marc Ferro argues that film is an "agent and source of history" and offers a comprehensive survey of the conceptual interrelations between cinema and history. In developing his arguments, he provides some dozen models, each focusing on a single film or set of films.

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Book Description:

Ferro discusses how film reveals the conscious values of its creators, the dominant ideology of the society in which the film was created, and also unconscious or subverted meanings and values.

About the Author:

Marc Ferro is a professor of history at l'Ecole des Hautes en Sciences in Paris and Co-Directeur (editor) of Annales (E.S.C.). His published works include The Use and Abuse of History, The Great War, 1914-1918, and The Russian Revolution of February, 1912.

Naomi Greene, a Ph.D. from New York University,is a professor of French and the chair of the Film Studies Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Among her works are Antonin Artaud: Poet without Words and Rene Clair: A Guide to References and Resources. She has also translated Foghorn, a book of poems by Jacques Temple.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 081431905X
• ISBN 13: 9780814319055
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176