Looking at the Past in a Postliterate Age

Looking at the Past in a Postliterate Age

To start with, this is not a course on the history of film. Nor is it a course about history on film, that is, documentary films constructed around locations, interviews, photographs, and memorabilia of all sorts. What the course is about is the historical fiction film, by definition a subjective work that employs historical settings and circumstances, and sometimes historically authentic characters, to advance an interpretation of events in the past. This kind of film does not describe or explain some piece of the past in the ...