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> Other books on the subject of Historical films:
Holocaust Representations in Animated Documentaries (2025)
The Contours of Commemoration
Subject: Genre > Historical films
Law, Justice, and Society in the Medieval World (2025)
An Introduction Through Film
Dir. Esther Liberman Cuenca, M. Christina Bruno and Anthony Perron
Subject: Genre > Historical films
Swords and Cinema (2025)
Hollywood vs the Reality of Ancient Warfare
Subject: Genre > Historical films
Reading Gender (2025)
Studies on Medieval Manuscripts and Medievalist Movies
Subject: Genre > Historical films
Cinema Medievalia (2024)
New Essays on the Reel Middle Ages
Dir. Kevin J. Harty and Scott Manning
Subject: Genre > Historical films
Music in Films on the Middle Ages (2024)
Authenticity vs. Fantasy
by John Haines
Subject: Genre > Historical films
Film, Hot War Traces and Cold War Spaces (2024)
Subject: Genre > Historical films
Abraham Lincoln and Women in Film (2024)
One Hundred Years of Hollywood Mythmaking
by Frank J. Wetta and Martin A. Novelli
Subject: Genre > Historical films
Classical Antiquity and the Cinematic Imagination (2024)
Subject: Genre > Historical films
The Anachronistic Turn (2023)
Historical Fiction, Drama, Film and Television
Subject: Genre > Historical films
Hollywood and History (2023)
What the Movies Get Wrong from the Ancient Greeks to Vietnam
by Jem Duducu
Subject: Genre > Historical films
Representing the Crusades (2023)
From Medieval Imagination to Contemporary Popular Culture
Subject: Genre > Historical films
Ancient Rome on the Silver Screen (2023)
Myth versus Reality
by Gregory S. Aldrete and Graham Sumner
Subject: Genre > Historical films
Writing Australian History On-screen (2023)
Television and Film Period Dramas “Down Under”
Dir. Jo Parnell, Julie Anne Taddeo and Chelsea Barnett
Subject: Genre > Historical films
Representations of Antiquity in Film (2022)
From Griffith to Grindhouse
Subject: Genre > Historical films
Old Stories and Contemporary Issues in Films about Antiquity and the Middle Ages (2022)
Idealistic Thinking, Sex, Lies, and Video Political Agendas
Subject: Genre > Historical films
The Knights Templar in Popular Culture (2022)
Films, Video Games and Fan Tourism
Subject: Genre > Historical films
Approaching Recent World History Through Film (2021)
Context, Analysis, and Research
Subject: Genre > Historical films
Queer Movie Medievalisms (2020)
Dir. Tison Pugh and Kathleen Coyne Kelly
Subject: Genre > Historical films
Medieval Women on Film (2020)
Essays on Gender, Cinema and History
Dir. Kevin J. Harty
Subject: Genre > Historical films
The Cinematic Eighteenth Century (2019)
History, Culture, and Adaptation
Dir. Srividhya Swaminathan and Steven W. Thomas
Subject: Genre > Historical films
Imagining Ancient Cities in Film (2019)
From Babylon to Cinecitta
Dir. Marta Garcia Morcillo, Pauline Hanesworth and Óscar Marchena
Subject: Genre > Historical films
Writing History with Lightning (2019)
Cinematic Representations of Nineteenth-Century America
Dir. Matthew Christopher Hulbert and John C. Inscoe
Subject: Genre > Historical films
Screening the Golden Ages of the Classical Tradition (2018)
Dir. Meredith E. Safran
Subject: Genre > Historical films
The Rwandan Genocide on Film (2018)
Critical Essays and Interviews
Dir. Matthew Edwards
Subject: Genre > Historical films
The New Peplum (2018)
Essays on Sword and Sandal Films and Television Programs Since the 1990s
Dir. Nicholas Diak
Subject: Genre > Historical films
Divided Lenses (2017)
Screen Memories of War in East Asia
Dir. Michael Berry and Chiho Sawada
Subject: Genre > Historical films
Italian Sword and Sandal Films, 1908–1990 (2017)
by Roy Kinnard and Tony Crnkovich
Subject: Genre > Historical films
Robin Hood FAQ (2017)
All That's Left to Know about England's Greatest Outlaw and His Band of Merry Men
Subject: Genre > Historical films
Reframing the Past (2016)
History, Film and Television
by Mia Treacey
Subject: Genre > Historical films
Holocaust Cinema in the Twenty-First Century (2015)
Images, Memory, and the Ethics of Representation, revised edition
Dir. Gerd Bayer and Oleksandr Kobrynskyy
Subject: Genre > Historical films
Remaking History (2015)
The Past in Contemporary Historical Fictions
Subject: Genre > Historical films
The Return of the Epic Film (2014)
Genre, Aesthetics and History in the 21st Century
Dir. Andrew B. R. Elliot
Subject: Genre > Historical films
The Medieval Filmscape (2014)
Reflections of Fear and Desire in a Cinematic Mirror
Subject: Genre > Historical films
The Europe of 1500 to 1815 on Film and Television (2014)
A Worldwide Filmography of over 2550 Works, 1895 Through 2000
Subject: Genre > Historical films
The Biopic in Contemporary Film Culture (2013)
Dir. Tom Brown and Belén Vidal
Subject: Genre > Historical films
The Tudors on Film and Television (2013)
by Sue Parrill and William B. Robison
Subject: Genre > Historical films
Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten (2013)
How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know about the Civil War
Subject: Genre > Historical films
The Adaptation of History (2012)
Essays on Ways of Telling the Past
Dir. Laurence Raw and Defne Ersin Tutan
Subject: Genre > Historical films
Of Muscles and Men (2011)
Essays on the Sword and Sandal Film
Dir. Michael G. Cornelius
Subject: Genre > Historical films
Heritage Film Audiences (2011)
Period Films and Contemporary Audiences in the UK
by Claire Monk
Subject: Genre > Historical films
American Frontiersmen on Film and Television (2011)
Boone, Crockett, Bowie, Houston, Bridger and Carson
Subject: Genre > Historical films
Elizabeth I in Film and Television (2011)
A Study of the Major Portrayals
Subject: Genre > Historical films
The Vikings on Film (2011)
Essays on Depictions of the Nordic Middle Ages
Dir. Kevin J. Harty
Subject: Genre > Historical films
American History Goes to the Movies (2010)
Hollywood and the American Experience
Subject: Genre > Historical films
Remaking the Middle Ages (2010)
The Methods of Cinema and History in Portraying the Medieval World
Subject: Genre > Historical films
Ancient Rome at the Cinema (2010)
Story and Spectacle in Hollywood and Rome
Subject: Genre > Historical films
Whose lives are they anyway? (2010)
the biopic as contemporary film genre
Subject: Genre > Historical films
Cinematic Illuminations (2009)
The Middle Ages on Film
by Laurie A. Finke and Martin B. Shichtman
Subject: Genre > Historical films
Nelson's Navy in Fiction and Film (2009)
Depictions of British Sea Power in the Napoleonic Era
by Sue Parrill
Subject: Genre > Historical films
Reconstructing American Historical Cinema (2009)
From Cimarron to Citizen Kane
by J. E. Smyth
Subject: Genre > Historical films
Royal Portraits in Hollywood (2009)
Filming the Lives of Queens
by Elizabeth A. Ford and Deborah C. Mitchell
Subject: Genre > Historical films
Hollywood in the Holy Land (2009)
Essays on Film Depictions of the Crusades and Christian-Muslim Clashes
Dir. Nickolas Haydock and E.L. Risden
Subject: Genre > Historical films
Epic Films (2009)
Casts, Credits and Commentary on More Than 350 Historical Spectacle Movies
Subject: Genre > Historical films
Robin Hood (2008)
A Cinematic History of the English Outlaw and His Scottish Counterparts
Subject: Genre > Historical films
The Roman Mistress (2007)
Ancient and Modern Representations
by Maria Wyke
Subject: Genre > Historical films
Cinéma et histoire (2007)
Cinema and history
Dir. Melvyn Stokes and Gilles Menegaldo
(in French and English)
Subject: Genre > Historical films
Mass Market Medieval (2007)
Essays on the Middle Ages in Popular Culture
Dir. David W. Marshall
Subject: Genre > Historical films
Lights, Camera, History (2007)
Portraying the Past in Film
Dir. Richard V. Francaviglia and Jerry Rodnitzky
Subject: Genre > Historical films
The Reel Middle Ages (2006)
American, Western and Eastern European, Middle Eastern and Asian Films About Medieval Europe
Subject: Genre > Historical films
Prehistoric Humans in Film and Television (2006)
581 Dramas, Comedies and Documentaries, 1905–2004
Subject: Genre > Historical films
The Holocaust and the Moving Image (2005)
Representations in Film and Television Since 1933
Dir. Toby Haggith and Joanna Newman
Subject: Genre > Historical films
American History and Contemporary Hollywood Film (2005)
by Trevor McCrisken and Andrew Pepper
Subject: Genre > Historical films
Hollywood's White House (2005)
The American Presidency in Film and History
Dir. Peter C. Rollins and John E. O'Connor
Subject: Genre > Historical films
The Medieval Hero on Screen (2004)
Representations from Beowulf to Buffy
Dir. Martha W. Driver and Sid Ray
Subject: Genre > Historical films
History Films, Women, and Freud's Uncanny (2004)
Subject: Genre > Historical films
The Columbia Companion to American History on Film (2004)
How the Movies Have Portrayed the American Past
Dir. Peter C. Rollins
Subject: Genre > Historical films
Reel Portrayals (2003)
The Lives of 640 Historical Persons on Film, 1929 through 2001
Subject: Genre > Historical films
Classical Myth and Culture in the Cinema (2001)
Dir. Martin M. Winkler
Subject: Genre > Historical films
The Historical Film (2000)
History and Memory in Media
Dir. Marcia Landy
Subject: Genre > Historical films
Why Docudrama? (1999)
Fact-Fiction on Film and TV
Dir. Alan Rosenthal
Subject: Genre > Historical films
The Persistence of History (1995)
Cinema, Television and the Modern Event
Dir. Vivian Sobchack
Subject: Genre > Historical films
Revisioning History (1995)
Film and the Construction of a New Past
Dir. Robert A. Rosenstone
Subject: Genre > Historical films
Playing Out the Empire (1994)
Ben-Hur and Other Toga Plays and Films, 1883-1908. A Critical Anthology
Dir. David Mayer
Subject: Genre > Historical films
> Other books related to Historical films:
Abraham Lincoln on Screen (2024)
Live-Action Portrayals on Film and Television
Subject: On Films > Characters
Rape in Period Drama Television (2024)
Consent, Myth, and Fantasy
by Katherine Byrne and Julie Anne Taddeo
Subject: Sociology
New Zealand Medievalism (2024)
Reframing the Medieval
Dir. Anna Czarnowus and Janet M. Wilson
Subject: Countries > New Zealand
Political Camerawork (2023)
Documentary and the Lasting Impact of Reenacting Historical Trauma
by D. Andy Rice
Subject: Genre > Documentary
German Ways of War (2022)
The Affective Geographies and Generic Transformations of German War Films
The Star-Spangled Screen (2022)
The American World War II Film
For No Reason at All (2022)
The Changing Narrative of the First World War in American Film
Filming History from Below (2022)
Microhistorical Documentaries
by Efrén Cuevas
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Recomposing the Past (2020)
Representations of Early Music on Stage and Screen
Dir. James Cook, Alexander Kolassa and Adam Whittaker
Planet Auschwitz (2020)
Holocaust Representation in Science Fiction and Horror Film and Television
Weimar Cinema, Embodiment, and Historicity (2019)
Cultural Memory and the Historical Films of Ernst Lubitsch
Medieval Art and the Look of Silent Film (2019)
The Influence on Costume and Set Design
Subject: Silent Cinema
Film and the American Presidency (2019)
Dir. Jeff Menne and Christian B. Long
Subject: Countries > United States
Destructive Sublime (2018)
World War II in American Film and Media
Screening Auschwitz (2018)
Wanda Jakubowska's The Last Stage and the Politics of Commemoration
by Marek Haltof
Subject: One Film > The Last Stage
World War I on Film (2016)
English Language Releases through 2014
The Nazi Past in Contemporary German Film (2014)
Viewing Experiences of Intimacy and Immersion
by Axel Bangert
War on the Silver Screen (2014)
Shaping America's Perception of History
by Glen Jeansonne and David Luhrssen
Eastwood's Iwo Jima (2013)
Critical Engagements with Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima
Dir. Anne Gjelsvik and Rikke Schubart
Subject: One Film > Flags of Our Fathers, Letters from Iwo Jima
Film and Genocide (2012)
French Costume Drama of the 1950s (2010)
Fashioning Politics in Film
Responses to Oliver Stone's Alexander (2010)
Film, History, and Cultural Studies
Dir. Paul Cartledge and Fiona Rose Greenland
Edna Ferber's Hollywood (2009)
American Fictions of Gender, Race, and History
by J. E. Smyth
Subject: Others persons > Edna Ferber
The Battle of Britain on Screen (2007)
'The Few' in British Film and Television Drama
Custer and the Battle of the Little Bighorn (2000)
An Encyclopedia of the People, Places, Events, Indian Culture and Customs, Information Sources, Art and Films
by Thom Hatch
Oliver Stone's USA (2000)
Film, History, and Controversy
Dir. Robert Brent Toplin
Subject: Director > Oliver Stone
Search and Clear (1988)
Critical Responses to Selected Literature and Films of the Vietnam War
Dir. William J. Searle
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