Historical films -- History and criticism.

-- Chapter 1. Confederate Abjection in D. W. Griffith's Early Civil War Films and Thomas Dixon's Clansman

investigates their historical origins. Historical fact and imaginative fiction are carefully sorted through

globalization, migration and immigration, and exile. This landmark book offers both a coherent, historical

, African, and Asian cinema, Landy engages in a counter-historical project that calls into question the

understandings of contemporary violence. They all chart, with cultural and historical specificity, the way in

individual experience (which existing political institutions cannot), he reads films by Sergei Eisenstein and

traditional genres such as the western or costume drama, depending on the historical figure under scrutiny

films into their historical, social, and political context.

questions and takes narration seriously, engaging with novels, films, local history accounts, petitions to

-- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Distribution Center for Experimental Films -- Chapter 2 Personal Chronicle: The

understanding of French interiors, from historical, theoretical and practice-based perspectives, and provides an