Introduction Marnie Hughes-Warrington. History on Film: Theory, Production, Reception
Part1: Introducing Historical Film
1. The Film in History: Restaging the Past Pierre Sorlin
2. Film and the Challenge of Authenticity Natalie Zemon Davis
3. History in Images/History in Words Robert Rosenstone
4. History and Media and Memory Marcia Landy
5. Historiography and Historiophoty Hayden White
Part2: Shaping Historical Film
6. Historical Fiction: A Body Too Much? Jean Comolli
7. The Emergence of Cinematic Time Mary A. Doane
8. Flashbacks in Film Maureen Turim
9. The Time-Image Gilles Deleuze
10. Can the Shoah be Funny? Some Thoughts on Recent and Older Films S.L. Gilman
11. Projecting the Holocaust into the Present Lawrence Baron
Part3: Historical Film and Identity
12. Prosthetic Memory / Traumatic Memory Robert Burgoyne. Cinema.
13. Never Having to Say You're Sorry: Rambo's Rewriting of the Vietnam War D. Desser and G. Studies
14. In the Combat Zone Marilyn Young
15. Revisiting the Round Table: Arthur’s American Dream Susan Aronstein
16. Gladiator and Contemporary America (2000) Monica Silveira Cyrino
Part4: Historical Films as Reality, Documentary and Propaganda
17. History: A Retro Scenario Jean Baudrillard
18. Detail and Historicity in Mainstream Cinema Philip Rosen
19. The Romans in Film Rolans Barthes
20. Historical Authenticity in Popular Films Set in the Past Michelle Pierson
21. Truth, History, and the New Documentary Linda Williams
22. Memory and Pedagogy in the ‘Wonderful World of Disney H.A. Giroux Part 5: Marketing and Receiving Historical Film
23. Irony, Nostalgia and the Postmodern L. Hutcheon
24. The Carole Lombard in Macy's Window C. Eckert
25. Selling My Heart: Music and Cross-Promotion in Titanic J. Smith
26. The Presence of the Past Roy Rosenzweig and David Thelen. Filmography. Index