MARCIA LANDY Marcia Landy is Distinguished Service Professor of English and film studies at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of many books, including The Folklore of Consensus: Theatricality and Spectacle in Italian Cinema, 1929-1943.

• PrefaceIntroductionRegarding HistoryHow to Look at an "Historical" FilmThe Historical Film: Looking at the Past in a Postliterate AgeMaking HistoryHistorical Pleasures: Gainsborough Costume MelodramaHistory as TraumaProjecting Ancient Rome"You Remember Diana Dors, Don't You?" History, Femininity, and the Law in the 1950s and 1980s British CinemaThe Presence of the Past: Rainer Werner Fassbinder's The Marriage of Maria BraunSchindler's List is Not Shoah: The Second Commandment, Popular Modernism, and Public MemoryWalker and Mississippi Burning: Postmodernism versus Illusionust NarrativeHistory, Fiction, and Postcolonial MemoryEmpire as Myth and MemoryBlack God, White Devil: The Representation of HistoryOfficial History, Popular Memory: Reconfiguration of the African Past in the Films of Ousmane SembeneHistory and TelevisionInformation, Crisis, CatastropheHistory, the Eternal Rerun: On Crime StoryHistory on Television: The Making of Cold War, 1998Ken Burns's Rebirth of a Nation: Television, Narrative, and Popular HistoryInterrotroning History: Errol Morris and the Documentary of the FutureSelect BibliographyContributorsIndex

MARCIA LANDY Marcia Landy is Distinguished Service Professor of English and film studies at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of many books, including The Folklore of Consensus: Theatricality and Spectacle in Italian Cinema, 1929-1943.

• PrefaceIntroductionRegarding HistoryHow to Look at an "Historical" FilmThe Historical Film: Looking at the Past in a Postliterate AgeMaking HistoryHistorical Pleasures: Gainsborough Costume MelodramaHistory as TraumaProjecting Ancient Rome"You Remember Diana Dors, Don't You?" History, Femininity, and the Law in the 1950s and 1980s British CinemaThe Presence of the Past: Rainer Werner Fassbinder's The Marriage of Maria BraunSchindler's List is Not Shoah: The Second Commandment, Popular Modernism, and Public MemoryWalker and Mississippi Burning: Postmodernism versus Illusionust NarrativeHistory, Fiction, and Postcolonial MemoryEmpire as Myth and MemoryBlack God, White Devil: The Representation of HistoryOfficial History, Popular Memory: Reconfiguration of the African Past in the Films of Ousmane SembeneHistory and TelevisionInformation, Crisis, CatastropheHistory, the Eternal Rerun: On Crime StoryHistory on Television: The Making of Cold War, 1998Ken Burns's Rebirth of a Nation: Television, Narrative, and Popular HistoryInterrotroning History: Errol Morris and the Documentary of the FutureSelect BibliographyContributorsIndex

MARCIA LANDY Marcia Landy is Distinguished Service Professor of English and film studies at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of many books, including The Folklore of Consensus: Theatricality and Spectacle in Italian Cinema, 1929-1943.

• PrefaceIntroductionRegarding HistoryHow to Look at an "Historical" FilmThe Historical Film: Looking at the Past in a Postliterate AgeMaking HistoryHistorical Pleasures: Gainsborough Costume MelodramaHistory as TraumaProjecting Ancient Rome"You Remember Diana Dors, Don't You?" History, Femininity, and the Law in the 1950s and 1980s British CinemaThe Presence of the Past: Rainer Werner Fassbinder's The Marriage of Maria BraunSchindler's List is Not Shoah: The Second Commandment, Popular Modernism, and Public MemoryWalker and Mississippi Burning: Postmodernism versus Illusionust NarrativeHistory, Fiction, and Postcolonial MemoryEmpire as Myth and MemoryBlack God, White Devil: The Representation of HistoryOfficial History, Popular Memory: Reconfiguration of the African Past in the Films of Ousmane SembeneHistory and TelevisionInformation, Crisis, CatastropheHistory, the Eternal Rerun: On Crime StoryHistory on Television: The Making of Cold War, 1998Ken Burns's Rebirth of a Nation: Television, Narrative, and Popular HistoryInterrotroning History: Errol Morris and the Documentary of the FutureSelect BibliographyContributorsIndex