COMM 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Historical Fiction, Docudrama, New Hollywood
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Spielberg"s lincoln: films can give us what it was like to experience events in the past. Traditional historians do not do very well: robert rosenstone. Historian and award winning screenwriter for reds. Believes film suggest new possibilities for representing the past. Include images that are once invented and may be considered true: symbolize condense or summarize large amounts of date, carry out overall meaning of the past. The truth of historical films: truth matters. Truth value of a narrative account of past events remains a function of its closeness or fidelity to those events. How we tell story will determine our relationship to it: grants us an allegorical experience. We have experienced something emotionally through personalization of the story. Can be useful and powerful if they engage arguments or truths of our existing historical knowledge: docudramatic can represent history effectively and affectively. Such stories offer motivated, truthful re-creation, close approximation, and analogic experiences.
