
Revisioning History
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The volume begins with an introduction by Robert Rosenstone. Part I, "Contesting History," comprises essays by Geoff Eley (on the film Distant Voices, Still Lives), Nicholas B. Dirks (The Home and the World), Thomas Kierstead and Deidre Lynch (Eijanaika), and Pierre Sorlin (Night of the Shooting Stars). Contributing to Part II, "Visioning History," are Michael S. Roth (Hiroshima Mon Amour), John Mraz (Memories of Underdevelopment), Min Soo Kang (The Moderns) and Clayton R. Koppes (Radio Bikini). Part III, "Revisioning History" contains essays by Denise J. Youngblood (Repentance), Rudy Koshar (Hitler: A Film from Germany), Rosenstone (Walker), Sumiko Higashi (Walker and Mississippi Burning), and Daniel Sipe (From the Pole to the Equator).
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- Cover Page
- Half-title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One: Contesting History
- 1. Distant Voices, Still Lives: The Family is a Dangerous Place: Memory, Gender, and the Image of the Working Class
- 2. The Home and the World: The Invention of Modernity in Colonial India
- 3. Eijanaika: Japanese Modernization and the Carnival of Time
- 4. The Night of the Shooting Stars: Fascism, Resistance, and the Liberation of Italy
- Part Two: Visioning History
- 5. Hiroshima Mon Amour: You Must Remember This
- 6. Memories of Underdevelopment: Bourgeois Consciousness/Revolutionary Context
- 7. The Moderns: Art, Forgery, and a Postmodern Narrative of Modernism
- 8. Radio Bikini: Making and Unmaking Nuclear Mythology
- Part Three: Revisioning History
- 9. Repentance: Stalinist Terror and the Realism of Surrealism
- 10. Hitler: A Film from Germany: Cinema, History, and Structures of Feeling
- 11. From the Pole to the Equator: A Vision of a Wordless Past
- 12. Walker and Mississippi Burning: Postmodernism Versus Illusionist Narrative
- 13. Walker: the Dramatic Film as (Postmodern) History
- Notes
- List of Contributors
- Film Credits
- Index
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