PERSPECTIVES ON EUROPEAN FILM AND HISTORY compiles essays on European historical movies such as Luc Besson's The Messenger (1999), Oliver Hirschbiegel's Downfall (2004) and Mike Leigh's Vera Drake (2004). This new volume thus enriches scholarship on historical films, which tends to focus on Hollywood productions.

The book features original contributions from internationally renowned scholars such as Robert Rosenstone, Amy Sargeant, Willem Hesling, Uli Jung, James Chapman and Brett Bowles. It was edited by Leen Engelen and Roel Vande Winkel. Perspectives on European Film and History is the fourth publication in the book series Film & TV Studies. 


TABLE OF CONTENTS
 
Prologue: Historical Film as Palimpsest
Bruno De Wever

No Way to do History? Towards an Intertextual Model for the Analysis of Historical Films
Leen Engelen

An Icon of Change: Andrei Rublev (1966) as a Historical Film about the Birth of Russia 
Pascal Vandelanoitte

Luc Besson's The Messenger (1999): Remaking Joan of Arc for the New Millennium
Brett Bowles

Artist Legends and the Historical Film. Alexander Korda's Rembrandt (1936)
Willem Hesling

The World Turned Upside Down: Cromwell (1970), Winstanley (1975), To Kill A King (2003) and the British historical film
James Chapman

'A truly fatherlandish epic'? Karl Grune's Waterloo (1928)
Uli Jung

Reframing the Past to Change the Future. Reflections on Herbert Wilcox's Dawn (1928) as a Historical Documentary and War Film

Liesbet Depauw

Hitler's Downfall, a film from Germany (Der Untergang, 2004)
Roel Vande Winkel

The Time Which Is Yet To Come: Understanding My Friend Ivan Lapshin (1983-1985)
Jasmijn Van Gorp

Vera Drake (2004): The comfort of strangers, the discomforts of strangeness
Amy Sargeant

Epilogue: The Promise of History on Film
Robert A. Rosenstone 

Notes on the Contributors

Index


SPECIFICATIONS

Leen Engelen and Roel Vande Winkel (eds)
Perspectives on European Film and History
Ghent: Academia Press, 2007, 281 p.
ISBN 97 890 3821082 7
Illustrations: b/w & colour

For more information:
http://www.wgfilmtv.ugent.be/wgfilm&tvEN/PerspectivesonEuropeanFilmandHistory.php

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