History on Film/Film on History

Robert A. Rosenstone is Professor Emeritus of History at the California Institute of Technology, USA. His award-winning biography of John Reed, Romantic Revolutionary (1975), was used as the basis of Warren Beatty's multiple Academy Award winner, Reds, on which Rosenstone served as historical consultant. His other publications include Visions of the Past: The Challenge of Film to Our Idea of History (1995) Crusade of the Left: The Lincoln Battalion in the Spanish Civil War (1969), and Mirror in the Shrine: American Encounters with Japan (1988). He is the editor of Revisioning History: Film and the Construction of a New Past (1995) and Experiments in Rethinking History (2004) and is the Founding Editor of Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice.

• List of illustrationsPreface to the series Introduction to the third editionIntroduction to the second edition Acknowledgements Chapter 1 History on filmChapter 2 To see the past Chapter 3 Mainstream drama Chapter 4 Innovative dramaChapter 5 DocumentaryChapter 6 Telling livesChapter 7 Film-maker/HistorianChapter 8 Engaging the discourseChapter 9 Film on historyEpilogue The View from 2017Guide to key readingBibliographyIndex

"Robert Rosenstone’s History on Film/Film on History in its third edition remains one of the few concise and comprehensible academic texts for use on the university level in courses that have history on film content. Rosenstone has been and continues to be a critical definer of this key interdisciplinary arena. As an introduction to history on film/film on history, this text remains essentially relevant and inimitably accessible."Erin O'Donnell, East Stroudsburg University-Pennsylvania, USA"This is best book on film insofar as it makes historians re-evaluate the validity of history on film… It is accessible and it is intelligent."Melinda Zook, Purdue University, USA