MEDIATIONS OF HISTORY IN VISUAL NARRATIVES

Abstract

newline Filmed or visualized history and written history have different newlinestrengths they are experienced and understood in very different ways The newlinemost complex problem the historian faces in the construction of the past on newlinethe screen emerges from the nature and demands of the visual medium itself newlinethe rhetorical economy and the appropriation of the visual image Both the newlineadvocates and the critics of historical films focus on the same aspect of the newlinemedium the way in which film creates an illusion of immediate experience or newlinea virtual reality of the past