The persistence of history : cinema, television, and the modern event / edited by Vivian Sobchack.
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New York :
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1996.
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| Series: | AFI film readers.
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Table of Contents:
- The modernist event
- Cinematic shots: the narration of violence
- Historical consciousness and the viewer: Who killed Vincent Chin?
- "I'll see it when I believe it": Rodney King and the prison-house of video
- Antimodernism as historical representation in a consumer culture: Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments, 1923, 1956, 1993
- Modernism and the narrative of nation in JFK
- Andrei Rublev: the medieval epic as post-utopian history
- Subject positions, speaking positions: from Holocaust, Our Hitler, and Heimat to Shoah and Schindler's List
- Historical ennui, feminist boredom
- The future of the past: film and the beginnings of postmodern history
- Interrotroning history: Errol Morris and the documentary of the future
- The professors of history.