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by Maarten Pereboom (Author)
Moving pictures have had a great influence on human culture, and this book focuses on using moving images as historical evidence. Studying history means examining evidence from the past to understand, interpret and present what has happened in different times and places. We tend to favor written sources, and we have tended to favor writing as a means of presenting our views of the past. But historians also use all kinds of other documents and artifacts in their work of interpreting the past, including moving pictures.
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History and Film will help students to:
- Analyze film critically, particularly for historical content, using it to gather information about the past, paying attention to the kinds of material and information it uses.
- Distinguish between a film s historical and fictional elements, and identify ways in which even the fictional elements may be a source of historical insight.
- Examine film as a historical or cultural artifact, answering questions about the production, content, reception and historical context of the film.
- Use print and electronic sources effectively in the study of history in film.
- Use film effectively as a primary and/or secondary source in the study of historical topics.
- Communicate insights effectively in writing that meets the standards of the discipline of history
Author Biography
Maarten Pereboom is professor of history and dean of the Fulton School of Liberal Arts at Salisbury Univrsity. He earned his doctorate at Yale University, and his first book, Democracies at the Turning Point: Britain, France, and the End of the Postwar Order, 1928-1933, earned Choice Magazine' s Outstanding Academic Book Award in 1996. In 1998 he won Salisbury University's Distinguished Faculty Award. He lives in Salisbury, Maryland, with his wife and their two sons.
