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 (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) 3. The Moving Image as Memory: Past and Present on Screen, Sam Edwards (Manchester Metropolitan 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) Reel Life and Real Life: Documenting and Narrating the Past 8. CASE STUDY: The Empire at the Movies: India in Newsreels, c. 1911 to 1947, Tilman Frasch (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) 9. CASE STUDY: ‘Truth’ and ‘Interiority’: Screening and Interpreting the Early Modern Era, Jonathan Spangler (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) 10. CASE STUDY: Hollywood Musicals Make History, Nicholas Gebhardt (Birmingham City University, UK) 11. CASE STUDY: ‘Moving’ Images: Educational Uses of D-Day Imagery, Michael Dolski (Defense POW/MIA Accounting Command, USA) Part III: Making Memory and Identity: The Politics and Purpose of Film and TV 12. CASE STUDY: Superhero Films and American National Identity, Michael Goodrum (University of Essex, UK) 13. CASE STUDY: ‘We Will Remember Them?’: Film, Television and the First World War in British Memor, Sam Edwards (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) 14. CASE STUDY: Presenting the Past: New Directions in Television History, Nicola Bishop (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) Filmography Bibliography Index

This methodological book can be welcomed within undergraduate courses on the history of film … [It] provides broad introductions to film history through the important lenses of nationalism, production, reception, commemoration, and historical memory.

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