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Revisioning History: Contemporary Filmmakers and the Construction of the Past

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Robert A. Rosenstone
Affiliation:
California Institute of Technology

Abstract

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CSSH Discussion
Copyright
Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1990

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References

1 Quoted in Burton, Julianne, ed., Cinema and Social Change in Latin America: Conversations with Filmmakers (Austin: University of Texas, 1986), 150.Google Scholar

2 Armes, Roy, Third World Film Making and the West (Berkeley: University of California, 1987), 99.Google Scholar

3 This essay will bypass the issue of who exactly is “author” of a motion picture. For practical purposes, I shall name directors as the individuals responsible for given works. Given the point of this essay, to investigate the many ways of doing historical films, the concept of who ís responsible for a film is not really important anyway. It should, however, be pointed out that many of the authors of the books mentioned here worry about the problem. Even those who do not believe that the director is really the “auteur” of a motion picture find themselves utilizing the concept. It is a difficult one to avoid. Perhaps the best explanation comes from Timothy Corrigan in New German Cinema: “While this investigation uses this notion as a hermeneutical device and the filmmakers often exploit it as a distribution strategy, it is certainly not … an entirely suitable classifier but rather an often grudgingly accepted image that aids communication” (p.xii).

4 Quoted in Pfaff, Francoise, Twenty-f?ve Black African Filmmakers (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1988), 176.Google Scholar

5 Ibid., ix-x

6 Quoted in Francoise Pfaff, The Cinema of Ousmane Sembene (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1984), 165.Google Scholar

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8 Ibid., 166.

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10 Ibid., xi.

11 Quoted in Ibid., 107.

12 Ibid., xii.

14 Quoted in ibid., 139.

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16 Quoted in Johnson, Randal and Stam, Robert, Brazilian Cinema (Austin: University of Texas, 1988), 216.Google Scholar

17 Ibid., 50.

18 Ibid., 224.

19 Quoted in Kaes, Anton, Hitler to Heimat: The Return of History as Film (Cambridge: Harvard, 1989), 26.Google Scholar

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21 Ibid., 147.

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