Film, History and Memory

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction

   • Jennie M. Carlsten, Fearghal McGarry

   Pages 1-17

3. A Very Long Engagement: The Use of Cinematic Texts in Historical Research

   • Gianluca Fantoni

   Pages 18-31

4. Screening European Heritage: Negotiating Europe’s Past via the ‘Heritage Film’

   • Axel Bangert, Paul Cooke, Rob Stone

   Pages 32-47

5. Confronting Silence and Memory in Contemporary Spain: The Grandchildren’s Perspective

   • Natalia Sanjuán Bornay

   Pages 48-64

6. The Enchantment and Disenchantment of the Archival Image: Politics and Affect in Contemporary Portuguese Cultural Memories

   • Alison Ribeiro de Menezes

   Pages 65-82

7. Foundational Films: The Memorialization of Resistance in Italy, France, Belarus and Yugoslavia

   • Mercedes Camino

   Pages 83-100

8. Amnesty with a Movie Camera

   • Andrew J. Hennlich

   Pages 101-117

9. History, Fiction and the Politics of Corporeality in Pablo Larraín’s Dictatorship Trilogy

   • Nike Jung

   Pages 118-133

10. Remember 1688? The Draughtsman’s Contract, the ‘Glorious Revolution’ and Public Memory

    • James Ward

    Pages 134-150

11. Not Thinking Clearly: History and Emotion in the Recent Irish Cinema

    • Jennie M. Carlsten

    Pages 151-168

12. Music and Montage: Punk, Speed and Histories of the Troubles

    • Liz Greene

    Pages 169-182

13. Reflections on What the Filmmaker Historian Does (to History)

    • Robert A. Rosenstone

    Pages 183-197

14. Back Matter

    Pages 198-209

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Using an interdisciplinary approach, Film, History and Memory broadens the focus from 'history', the study of past events, to 'memory', the processes – individual, generational, collective or state-driven – by which meanings are attached to the past.

• film
• history
• memory
• historiography
• historical representation
• commemoration
• affect
• spectatorship
• discourse
• historiophoty
• cinema
• individual

• School of Media, Film and Journalism, University of Ulster, UK

  Jennie M. Carlsten

• Queen’s University Belfast, UK

  Fearghal McGarry

Axel Bangert, NYU Berlin, Germany Natalia Sanjuán Bornay, Flinders University, Australia Mercedes Camino, Lancaster University, UK Jennie M. Carlsten, University of Ulster, UK Paul Cooke, University of Leeds, UK Gianluca Fantoni, Nottingham Trent University, UK Liz Greene, Dublin City University, Ireland Andrew Hennlich, Michigan University, USA Nike Jung, University of Warwick, UK Fearghal McGarry, Queen's University, Belfast, UK Alison Ribeiro de Menezes, University of Warwick, UK Robert A. Rosenstone, California Institute of Technology, USA Rob Stone, University of Birmingham, UK James Ward, University of Ulster, UK

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