Synopsis
How, as historians, should we ‘read’ a film? Histories on Screen answers this and other questions in a crucial volume for any history student keen to master source use. The book begins with a theoretical ‘Thinking about Film’ section that explores the ways in which films can be analyzed and interrogated as either primary sources, secondary sources or indeed as both. The much larger ‘Using Film’ segment of the book then offers engaging case studies which put this theory into practice. Topics including gender, class, race, war, propaganda, national identity and memory all receive good coverage in what is an eclectic multi-contributor volume. Documentaries, films and television from Britain and the United States are examined and there is a jargon-free emphasis on the skills and methods needed to analyze films in historical study featuring prominently throughout the text. Histories on Screen is a vital resource for all history students as it enables them to understand film as a source and empowers them with the analytical tools needed to use that knowledge in their own work.
About the Authors
Sam Edwards is Reader in Modern Political History at Loughborough University, UK. He is the author of Allies in Memory: World War II and the Politics of Transatlantic Commemoration, c. 1941-2001 (2015) and the co-editor, along with Michael Dolski and John Buckley, of D-Day in History and Memory: The Normandy Landings in International Remembrance and Commemoration (2014).
Faye Sayer is Associate Professor in Heritage and History and Director of the International Centre for Heritage at the University of Birmingham, UK. She has published major articles on community heritage and worked for some of the UK's most significant heritage organizations, including English Heritage, The Portable Antiquities Scheme and the Museum of London. She has been involved in public heritage projects around the world, including in the USA, Europe, and Australia, and she is also a well-known, former Time Team archaeologist.
Michael Dolski is Director of Historical Services for the Air Force Reserve Command, where he leads the command's history and heritage programme across three Numbered Air Forces, thirty-seven Wings, and two Centers. He is the author of D-Day Remembered: The Normandy Invasion in American Memory (2016) and co-editor, with Sam Edwards and John Buckley, of D-Day in History and Memory: The Normandy Landings in International Remembrance and Commemoration (2014).
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