CLA101H5 Lecture 12: CLA 101-Lecture 12 - Nov 24th.docx
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Lecture title: let"s go to the movies: greece and rome in todays world. See rosenstone"s concepts from the reading below. Major problem with historians and historical movie makers is making a historically accurate film, and meanwhile making it engaging. Rosenstone"s concepts used to describe the relationship between history and film. Rosenstones 6 points: films package history as romance or comedy where people try to escape or overcome a problemalways with a postive outcome. Therefore- truth is distorted to make it more exciting: present history as a story of individuals and leave broad historical problems unaddressed, highlight emotion of the human experience. 4)prone to falisify history since the look of history is more important than it"s accuracy. 6)film can"t teach us anything we don"t already know. The movie gladiator was made in 2000 by ridley scott and it portrays the roman empire in 180 ad.
