Bibliography: History
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Selective Subject Bibliographies of Film
by Paul J. Spaeth

 

4. History

 

General

Mark C. Carnes (ed.) Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies. New York : Henry Holt, 1995.

Marc Ferro. Cinema and History. Detroit : Wayne State University , 1988.

Flashback: Films and History. Special issue of : Cultures 2:1 (1974)

Philip Rosen. Change Mummified: Cinema, Historicity, Theory. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2001.

Robert A. Rosenstone (ed.) Revisioning History: Film and the Construction of a New Past. Princeton University Press, 1995.

Kenneth R. M. Short (ed.) Feature Films as History. Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, 1981.

Paul Smith (ed.) The Historian and Film. New York : Cambridge University Press, 1976.

Pierre Sorlin. The Film in History: Restaging the Past. Totowa , NJ : Barnes & Noble, 1980.

 

History: Ancient

Derek Elley. The Epic Film: Myth and History. London : Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984.

Gary A. Smith. Epic Films: Cast, Credits and Commentary on Over 250 Historical Spectacle Movies. Jefferson , NC : McFarland, 1991.

Jon Solomon. The Ancient World in Cinema. Rev. & expanded ed. New Haven : Yale, 2001.

Martin M. Winkler (ed.) Classical Myth and Culture in the Cinema. New York : Oxford , 2001.

Maria Wyke. Projecting the Past: Ancient Rome , Cinema and History. New York : Routledge, 1997.

 

History: War

Ivan Butler. The War Film. New York : A. S. Barnes, 1974.

John Dowling. War / Peace: Film Guide. Chicago : World Without War Publications, 1980.

Norman Kagan. The War Film. New York : Pyramid, 1974.

Jack G. Shaheen (ed.) Nuclear War Films. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 1978.

 

World War I

Craig W. Campbell. Reel America and World War I: a Comprehensive Filmography and History of Motion Pictures in the United States, 1914-1920. Jefferson , NC : McFarland, 1985.

Leslie Midkift DeBauche. Reel Patriotism: The Movies and World War I. Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, 1997.

Peter C. Rollins & John E. O’Connor (eds.) Hollywood ’s World War I: Motion Picture Images. Bowling Green State University , 1997.

 

World War II

Ken D. Jones & Arthur F. McClure. Hollywood at War: The American Motion Picture and World War II. New York : A. S. Barnes, 1973.

Joe Morella, Edward Z. Epstein, John Griggs. The Films of World War II. Secaucus , NJ : Citadel, 1973.

 

World War II: The Holocaust

Andre Pierre Colombat. The Holocaust in French Film. Metuchen , NJ : Scarecrow, 1993.

Annette Insdorf. Indelible Shadows: Film and the Holocaust. New York : Random House, 1983.

 

Vietnam War

Michael Anderegg (ed.) Inventing Vietnam : The War in Film and Television. Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1991.

Jeremy M. Devine. Vietnam at 24 Frames per Second: A Critical and Thematic Analysis of Over 400 Films about the Vietnam War. Austin : University of Texas Press, 1999.

Linda Dittmar & Gene Michaud (eds.) From Hanoi to Hollywood : The Vietnam War in American Film. New Brunswick , NJ : Rutgers University Press, 1990.

Julian Smith. Looking Away: Hollywood and Vietnam . New York : Scribner’s, 1975.