The Persistence of History: Cinema, Television and the Modern Event

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Acknowledgments
Introduction: History Happens	p. 1
The Modernist Event	p. 17
Cinematic Shots: The Narration of Violence	p. 39
Historical Consciousness and the Viewer: Who Killed Vincent Chin?	p. 55
"I'll See It When I Believe It": Rodney King and the Prison-House of Video	p. 69
Antimodernism as Historical Representation in a Consumer Culture: Cecil B. Demille's The Ten Commandments, 1923, 1956, 1993	p. 91
Modernism and the Narrative of Nation in JFK	p. 113
Andrei Rublev: The Medieval Epic as Post-Utopian History	p. 127
Subject Positions, Speaking Positions: From Holocaust, Our Hitler, and Heimat to Shoah and Schindler's List	p. 145
Historical Ennui, Feminist Boredom	p. 187
The Future of the Past: Film and the Beginnings of Postmodern History	p. 201
Interrotroning History: Errol Morris and the Documentary of the Future	p. 219
The Professors of History	p. 235
Contributors	p. 257
Index	p. 259
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