Broad in scope, this interdisciplinary collection of original scholarship on historical film features essays that explore the many facets of this expanding fiel

Although precise definitions have not been agreed on, historical cinema tends to cut across existing genre categories and establishes an intimidatingly large gr

What is history? How do we represent it? How do our notions of history change over time? The essays in The Historical Film: History and Memory in Media probe th

People have been experimenting with different ways to write history for 2,500 years, yet we have experimented with film in the same way for only a century. Note

Describes the accuracy, historical context, plot, and entertainment value of over three hundred significant films