THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO HISTORY AND THE MOVING IMAGE (HB 2024)

The Routledge Companion to History and the Moving Image takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding history in moving images. It engages this popular and dynamic field that has evolved rapidly from film and television to digital streaming into the age of user-created content.

The volume addresses moving image history through a theoretical lens; modes and genres; representation, race, and identity; and evolving forms and formats. It brings together a range of scholars from across the globe who specialize in film and media studies, cultural studies, history, philosophy of history, and education. Together, the chapters provide a necessary contemporary analysis that covers new developments and questions that arise from the shift to digital screen culture. The book examines technological and ethical concerns stemming from today’s media landscape, but it also considers the artificial construction of the boundaries between professional expertise and amateur production. Each contributor’s unique approach highlights the necessity of engaging with moving images for the academic discipline of history.

The collection, written for a global audience, offers accessible discussions of historiography and a compelling resource for advanced undergraduates and postgraduates in history, film and media studies, and communications.

Both Chapter 17 and the Afterword of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

Marnie Hughes-Warrington is Deputy Vice Chancellor Research and Enterprise at the University of South Australia, and Honorary Professor of History at the Australian National University. She is the author of multiple books in historiography, including History Goes to the Movies (2007) and History from Loss (edited with Daniel Woolf, 2023).

Kim Nelson is the Director of the Humanities Research Group and an Associate Professor at the University of Windsor in Canada. Her work has been screened internationally by film festivals and broadcasters. She is the author of Making History Move: Five Principles of the Historical Film (2024).

Mia E.M. Treacey researches and writes in the interdisciplinary field of Screened History, exploring the relationship between History, the past, and moving images. Her publications include Reframing the Past: History, Film and Television (2016). A university educator for over 15 years, she now teaches secondary school History and English.