Film, History and Memory

Film, History and Memory examines the relationship between film and history, exploring the multiplicity of ways in which films depict, contest, reinforce or subvert historical understanding. This volume broadens the focus from 'history', the study of past events, to 'memory', the processes – individual, generational, collective or state-driven – by which meanings are attached to the past. This approach acknowledges how the significance of the historical film lies less in its empirical qualities than in its powerful capacity to influence public thinking and discourses about the past, whether by shaping collective memory, popular history and social memory, or by retrieving suppressed or marginalized histories. This study aims to contribute to the growing literature on history and film through the breadth of its approach, both in disciplinary and geographical terms. Contributors are drawn not only from the discipline of history but also film studies, film practice, art history, languages and literature, and cultural studies.

Fearghal McGarry teaches history at Queen's University, Belfast, UK. He has written widely on radicalism and revolution in Ireland, most recently The Rising. Ireland: Easter 1916. He has led two major projects exploring the relationship between film and history, and has worked as a historical consultant on a number of documentaries and films.
 
Jennie M. Carlsten is Lecturer in Film at the School of Media, Film and Journalism at the University of Ulster, Ireland. She received her doctorate in Film Studies at Queen's University, Belfast, where she subsequently worked as a postdoctoral researcher with the School of History and Anthropology. She has published on the topics of cinematic emotion and Irish cinema.

List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction; Jennie M. Carlsten and Fearghal McGarry
1.A Very Long Engagement: The Use of Cinematic Texts in Historical Research; Gianluca Fantoni
2.Screening European Heritage: Negotiating Europe's Past via the 'Heritage Film'; Axel Bangert, Paul Cooke and Rob Stone
3.Confronting Silence and Memory in Contemporary Spain: The Grandchildren's Perspective; Natalia Sanjuan Bornay
4.The Enchantment and Disenchantment of the Archival Image: Politics and Affect in Contemporary Portuguese Cultural Memories; Alison Ribeiro de Menezes
5.Foundational Films: The Memorialization of Resistance in Italy, France, Belarus and Yugoslavia; Mercedes Camino
6. Amnesty With a Movie Camera; Andrew J. Hennlich
7.History, Fiction, and the Politics of Corporeality in Pablo Larraín's Dictatorship Trilogy; Nike Jung
8.Remember 1688? The Draughtsman's Contract, the 'Glorious Revolution' and Public Memory; James Ward
9.Not Thinking Clearly: History and Emotion in the Recent Irish Cinema; Jennie Carlsten
10. Music and Montage: Punk, Speed and Histories of the Troubles; Liz Greene
11. Reflections on What the Filmmaker Historian Does (to History); Robert A. Rosenstone
Index