Histories on Screen

List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: Thinking about Film and Television
1. The Moving Image as Primary Source: Author, Text and Context, Michael Dolski (Defense POW/MIA Accounting Command, USA)
2. The Moving Image as a Secondary Source: Truth, Authenticity and Narrative, Faye Sayer (University of Birmingham, UK)
3. The Moving Image as Memory: Past and Present on Screen, Sam Edwards (Loughborough University, UK)
Part II: Using Film and Television: Case Studies
The Lens of History: Race, Class and Gender on Screen
4. CASE STUDY: 'The Way We Are': Class and Britishness on Film, Marcus Morris (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
5. CASE STUDY: Were Fires Started? Exploring Gender in British Cinema of the Second World War, Corinna Penniston-Bird (Lancaster University, UK)
6. CASE STUDY: Screening Multicultural Britain: Blair, Britishness and Bend it Like Beckham, Sarah Ilot (Teeside University, UK)
7. CASE STUDY: Mammy, Mandingo, Django and Solomon: A Century of American Slavery in Cinema from Uncle Tom's Cabin to Twelve Years a Slave, Lydia Plath (Canterbury Christ Church University, UK)
8. CASE STUDY: "If I am unable to find a husband, I shall be worthless": Reading the roles of Women in the worlds of Bridgerton and Sanditon, Lizzie Rogers (Independent Scholar)
9. CASE STUDY: Watching a Black Screen: Cinema and Race in Britain, Clive Webb (University of Sussex, UK)
Reel Life and Real Life: Documenting and Narrating the Past
10. CASE STUDY: The Empire at the Movies: India in Newsreels, c. 1911 to 1947, Tilman Frasch (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
11. CASE STUDY: 'Truth' and 'Interiority': Screening and Interpreting the Early Modern Era, Jonathan Spangler (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
12. CASE STUDY: Hollywood Musicals Make History, Nicholas Gebhardt (Birmingham City University, UK)
13. CASE STUDY: The Hollywood Western in the Cold War, Joshua Wolf (Benedictine College, USA)
14. CASE STUDY: 'Moving' Images: Educational Uses of D-Day Imagery, Michael Dolski (Defense POW/MIA Accounting Command, USA)
15. CASE STUDY: CASE STUDY: Using Televisual Sources to Understand the History of the Civil Rights Movement, Sage Goodwin (Harvard University, USA)
Making Memory and Identity: The Politics and Purpose of Film and TV
16. CASE STUDY: Do It Yourself: Community Programming, Documentary Filmmaking and Lesbian, Gay and Trans Campaigning in Postwar Britain, Marcus Collins (Loughborough University, UK)
17. CASE STUDY: Superhero Films and American National Identity, Michael Goodrum (University of Essex, UK)
18. CASE STUDY: After the Holocaust: Post-Genocidal Trauma on Screen, Tereza Valny (University of Edinburgh, UK)
19. CASE STUDY: 'We Will Remember Them?': Film, Television and the First World War in British Memory, Sam Edwards (Loughborough University, UK)
20. CASE STUDY: Presenting the Past: New Directions in Television History, Nicola Bishop (Loughborough University, UK)
Filmography
Bibliography
Index