A Companion to the Historical Film

Notes on Contributors

Introduction
Robert A. Rosenstone and Constantin Parvulescu

Part 1: History and the Medium of Film

1. Politics and the Historical Film: Hotel Rwanda and the Form of Engagement
Alison Landsberg

2. History as Palimpsest: Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon (1975)
Maria Pramaggiore

3. Flagging up History: The Past as a DVD Bonus Feature
Debra Ramsay

4. The History Film as a Mode of Historical Thought
Robert A. Rosenstone

Part 2: Filmmakers as Historians

5. Julia’s Resistant History: Women’s Historical Films in Hollywood and the Legacy of Citizen Kane
J. E. Smyth

6. Mark Donskoi’s Gorky Trilogy and the Stalinist Biopic
Denise J. Youngblood

7. The Subjects of History: Italian Filmmakers as Historians
Marcia Landy

8. Andrzej Wajda as Historian
Piotr Witek

Part 3: Telling Lives: The Biopic

9. Oliver Stone’s Nixon: The Rise and Fall of a Political Gangster
Willem Hesling

10. Authorial Histories: The Historical Film and the Literary Biopic
Hila Shachar

11. The Biopic in Hindi Cinema
Rachel Dwyer

12. The Lives and Times of the Biopic
Dennis Bingham

Part 4: Cinema and the Nation

13. Gang Wars: Warner Brothers’ The Roaring Twenties Stars, News, and the New Deal
Paula Rabinowitz

14. State Terrorism on Film: Argentine Cinema during the First Years of Democracy (1983–1990)
Mario Ranalletti

15. Fossil Frontiers: American Petroleum History on Film
Georgiana Banita

16. Sounding the Depths of History: Opera and National Identity in Italian Film
Roger Hillman

Part 5: Wars and Revolutions

17. Generational Memory and Affect in Letters from Iwo Jima
Robert Burgoyne

18. Post-Heroic Revolution: Depicting the 1989 Events in the Romanian Historical Film of the Twenty-First Century
Constantin Parvulescu

19. In Country: Narrating the Iraq War in Contemporary US Cinema
Guy Westwell

Part 6: Premodern Times

20. Heart and Clock: Time and History in The Immortal Heart and Other Films about the Middle Ages
Bettina Bildhauer

21. The Anti-Samurai Film
Thomas Keirstead

Part 7: Slavery and the Postcolonial World

22. The Politics of Cine-Memory: Signifying Slavery in the History Film
Michael T. Martin and David C. Wall

23. The African Past on Screen: Moving beyond Dualism
Vivian Bickford-Smith

24. Colonial Legacies in Contemporary French Cinema: Jews and Muslims on Screen
Catherine Portuges

25. ‘‘What’s Love Got to Do with It?’’: Sympathy, Antipathy, and the Unsettling of Colonial American History in Film
Louis Kirk McAuley

Index