Using an interdisciplinary approach, Film, History and Memory 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.
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
