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Adventures of a Postmodern Historian

Living and Writing the Past

By: Robert A. Rosenstone

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Adventures of a Postmodern Historian

Living and Writing the Past

By: Robert A. Rosenstone

Robert Rosenstone was among the first 'postmodern' historians, and remains one of the most renowned. In this honest, revealing and often funny memoir, he shows us how he got there and why. Adventures of a Postmodern Historian chronicles Rosenstone's research journeys over half a century. Beginning in the 1960s, his offbeat trajectory took him on adventures through the police states of Franco Spain and the Soviet Union, to the Shinto shrines and Zen temples of Japan and ultimately to Hollywood. Alongside his own memoirs, Rosenstone reflects upon developments and changes within the realm of professional history, which in turn reflect the social, cultural, and intellectual shifts of the late 20th century. A pioneer of experimental and creative history, he suggests how the experience of the historian can inflect the written history, and provides a defence of innovation in historical writing that is both intellectually rigorous and entertaining. In doing so he offers a window into the state of history today – and points to exciting new ways of writing the past. This is a book about the craft of history, about both doing research and writing it. It should be required reading for all historians.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1474274234

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Visions of the Past

The Challenge of Film to Our Idea of History

By: Robert A. Rosenstone

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The Challenge of Film to Our Idea of History

By: Robert A. Rosenstone

Can filmed history measure up to written history? What happens to history when it is recorded in images, rather than words? Can images convey ideas and information that lie beyond words? Taking on these timely questions, Robert Rosenstone pioneers a new direction in the relationship between history and film. Rosenstone moves beyond traditional approaches, which examine the history of film as art and industry, or view films as texts reflecting their specific cultural contexts. This essay collection makes a radical venture into the investigation of a new concern: how a visual medium, subject to the conventions of drama and fiction, might be used as a serious vehicle for thinking about our relationship with the past. Rosenstone looks at history films in a way that forces us to reconceptualize what we mean by "history." He explores the innovative strategies of films made in Africa, Latin America, Germany, and other parts of the world. He journeys into the history of film in a wide range of cultures, and expertly traces the contours of the postmodern historical film. In essays on specific films, including Reds, JFK, and Sans Soleil, he considers such issues as the relationship between fact and film and the documentary as visionary truth. Theorists have for some time been calling our attention to the epistemological and literary limitations of traditional history. The first sustained defense of film as a way of thinking historically, this book takes us beyond those limitations.

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Harvard University Press

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0674266838

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9780674266834

History on Film/Film on History

By: Robert A. Rosenstone

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History on Film/Film on History

By: Robert A. Rosenstone

History on Film/Film on History demonstrates how films can be analyzed as historical sources. It offers undergraduates an introduction to some of the first issues involved with studying historical films. Rosenstone argues that to leave history films out of the discussion of the meaning of the past is to ignore a major factor in our understanding of past events. He examines what history films convey about the past and how they convey it, demonstrating the need to learn how to read and understand this new visual world. This new edition places this 'classic' text in the context of work done elsewhere in the field over the ten years since this book first published, and help to renew the title for a new generation of undergraduates.

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322

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Routledge

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1317860594

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9781317860594

Visions of the Past

The Challenge of Film to Our Idea of History

By: Robert A. Rosenstone

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The Challenge of Film to Our Idea of History

By: Robert A. Rosenstone

Rosenstone investigates how a visual medium, subject to conventions of drama and fiction, might be used as a serious vehicle for thinking about our relationship with the past. Employing such films as Reds, JFK, and Sans Soleil, he considers issues like the rapport between fact and film and the documentary as visionary truth.

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0674940989

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Red Star, Crescent Moon

A Muslim-Jewish Love Story

By: Robert A. Rosenstone

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Red Star, Crescent Moon

A Muslim-Jewish Love Story

By: Robert A. Rosenstone

An international film festival sparks a cross-cultural romance sparks in this novel of cultural history, ethnic tensions, and the power of love. Aisha and Benjamin meet at a film festival in Spain, and the instant attraction hits them both like a lightning bolt. She is a documentary filmmaker, and he is a historian. She is a Muslim, and he is a Jew. And as they get closer, the misunderstanding between them, and the tensions between their two worlds, escalates to dizzying extremes. Red Star, Crescent Moon mixes contemporary and the historical worlds in a bold tale of clashing cultures. It is a tale of new romance and ancient conflicts, where pop culture and political violence exist side by side. The romance of Aisha and Benjamin is set against the backdrop of a Hollywood epic in production, a movie megastar with seductive intentions, and terrorists who wish to reclaim Spain for Islam.

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New Acdemia+ORM

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0985569832

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9780985569839

American History: Reconstruction through the present

By: Robert James Maddox

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American History: Reconstruction through the present

By: Robert James Maddox

Series of articles on people, events, documents in American history.

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0879677732

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Adventures of a Postmodern Historian

Living and Writing the Past

By: Robert A. Rosenstone

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Living and Writing the Past

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1474274234

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The Man Who Swam into History

The (Mostly) True Story of My Jewish Family

By: Robert A. Rosenstone

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The Man Who Swam into History

The (Mostly) True Story of My Jewish Family

By: Robert A. Rosenstone

The story begins with a grandfather who heroically escaped from Russia by swimming the Pruth River to Romania—or did he? Then there are stories of another grandfather who kept a lifelong mistress; grandmothers who were ignored except in the kitchen; migrations legal and illegal from Eastern Europe to Canada to California; racketeers on one side of the family and Communists on the other; and a West Coast adolescence in the McCarthy years. All of these (mostly true) stories form a Jewish family's history, a tale of dislocation and assimilation. But in the hands of award-winning historian Robert Rosenstone, they become much more. The fragments of memory so beautifully preserved in The Man Who Swam into History add unforgettable, human characters to the now familiar story of the Jewish diaspora in the twentieth century. This combination memoir/short story collection recounts the Rosenstone family's passage from Romania to America. Robert Rosenstone tells the story not as a single, linear narrative, but through "tales, sequences, windows, moments, and fragments resurrected from the lives of three generations in my two parental families, set in five countries on two continents over the period of almost a century." This more literary and personal approach allows Rosenstone's relatives to emerge as distinct personalities, voices who quarrel and gossip, share their dreams and fears, and maintain the ties of a loving, if eccentric, family. Among the genre of "coming to America" tales, The Man Who Swam into History is a work of unique vision, one that both records and reconstructs the past even as it continuously—and humorously—questions the truth of its own assertions.

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University of Texas Press

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0292774656

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9780292774650

Mirror in the Shrine

American Encounters with Meiji Japan

By: Robert A. Rosenstone

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Mirror in the Shrine

American Encounters with Meiji Japan

By: Robert A. Rosenstone

Cross-cultural contacts between America and Japan in the nineteenth-century are typified in the stories of three visitors--missionary William Elliot Griffis, scientist Edward S. Morse, and writer Lafeadio Hern

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067457642X

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The Whole Works of Robert Leighton: To Which Is Prefixed a Memoir of the Author;

By: Robert Leighton,George Jerment

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The Whole Works of Robert Leighton: To Which Is Prefixed a Memoir of the Author;

By: Robert Leighton,George Jerment

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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Franklin Classics Trade Press

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0353570095

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Book's by Robert A. Rosenstone

Adventures of a Postmodern Historian

Adventures of a Postmodern Historian

Visions of the Past

Visions of the Past

History on Film/Film on History

History on Film/Film on History

Visions of the Past

Visions of the Past

Red Star, Crescent Moon

Red Star, Crescent Moon

American History: Reconstruction through the present

American History: Reconstruction through the present

Adventures of a Postmodern Historian

Adventures of a Postmodern Historian

The Man Who Swam into History

The Man Who Swam into History

Mirror in the Shrine

Mirror in the Shrine

The Whole Works of Robert Leighton: To Which Is Prefixed a Memoir of the Author;

The Whole Works of Robert Leighton: To Which Is Prefixed a Memoir of the Author;

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