Below is a list of books suitable for review purposes in our seminar. Virtually all are available at the DuBois library and/or the other Five-College libraries. This list is by no means comprehensive, however -- for example, I did not include any titles on specific filmmakers except for Robert Toplin's new book on Oliver Stone. You are welcome to review any other text that you may find that's related to our seminar. (Please clear it with me before you begin.) Please let me know as soon as you decide on a book, so that I can notify our seminar-mates that it has been "claimed."

N.b.: The second Landy book (i.e., The Historical Film) and the Edgerton/Rollins book are not yet available in our library, but I do own copies of them and would be willing to loan them out. See me if you're interested in reviewing either one.

Barta, Tony (ed.). Screening the Past: Film and the Representation of History. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1988.

Burgoyne, Robert. Film Nation: Hollywood Looks at U.S. History. Minneapolis: U. of Minnesota Press, 1997.

Cameron, Kenneth M. America on Film: Hollywood and American History. New York: Continuum, 1997.

Dolan, Sean. Telling the Story: The Media, the Public, and American History. Boston: New England Foundation for the Humanities, 1994.

Edgerton, Gary, and Peter C. Rollins (eds.). Television Histories: Shaping Collective Memory in the Media Age. Lexington: U. Press of Kentucky, 2001.

Elley, Derek. The Epic Film: Myth and History. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984.

Ferro, Marc. Cinema and History. Detroit: Wayne State U. Press, 1988.

Fraser, George MacDonald. The Hollywood History of the World: From One Million Years B.C. to Apocalypse Now. New York: Beech Tree Books, 1988.

Goodwin, James. Eisenstein, Cinema, and History. Urbana: U. of Illinois Press, 1993.

Grindon, Leger. Shadows on the Past: Studies in the Historical Fiction Film. Philadelphia: Temple U. Press, 1994.

Guynn, William. A Cinema of Nonfiction. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson U. Press, 1990.

Harper, Sue. Picturing the Past: The Rise and Fall of the British Costume Film. London: BFI Publishing, 1994.

Isenberg, Michael T. War on Film: The American Cinema and World War I, 1914-1941. Rutherford, NJ: Farleigh Dickinson U. Press, 1981.

Landy, Marcia. Cinematic Uses of the Past. Minneapolis: U. of Minnesota Press, 1996.

Landy, Marcia (ed.). The Historical Film: History and Memory in Media. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers U. Press, 2001.

Murray, Bruce, and Christopher Wickham (eds.). Framing the Past: The Historiography of German Cinema and Television. Carbondale: Southern Illinois U. Press, 1992.

Nichols, Bill. Blurred Boundaries: Questions of Meaning in Contemporary Culture. Bloomington: Indiana U. Press, 1994.

O'Connor, John E., and Martin Jackson (eds.). American History/American Film: Interpreting the Hollywood Image. New York: Ungar, 1979.

O'Connor, John E. (ed.). Image as Artifact: The Historical Analysis of Film and Television. Malabar, FL: Krieger Publishing, 1990.

Pauly, Rebecca M. The Transparent Illusion: Image and Ideology in French Text and Film. New York: P. Lang, 1993.

Pitts, Michael. Hollywood and American History: A Filmography of Over 250 Motion Pictures Depicting U.S. History. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1984.

Rebhorn, Marlette. Screening America: Using Hollywood Films to Teach History. New York: P. Lang, 1988.

Richards, Jeffrey, and Anthony Aldgate. British Cinema and Society, 1930-1970. Totowa, NJ: Barnes & Noble Books, 1983.

Rollins, Peter C. (ed.). Hollywood as Historian: American Film in a Cultural Context. Lexington: U. Press of Kentucky, 1983.

Rosenstone, Robert (ed.). Revisioning History: Film and the Construction of a New Past. Princeton: Princeton U. Press, 1995.

Rosenthal, Alan (ed.). Why Docudrama? Fact-Fiction on Film and TV. Carbondale: Southern Illinois U. Press, 1999.

Shindler, Colin. Hollywood in Crisis: Cinema and American Society, 1929-1939. New York: Routledge, 1996

Short, K. R. M. (ed.). Feature Films as History. Knoxville: U. of Tennessee Press, 1981.

Sklar, Robert, and Charles Musser (eds.). Resisting Images: Essays on Cinema and History. Philadelphia: Temple U. Press, 1990.

Smith, Paul (ed.). The Historian and Film. New York: Cambridge U. Press, 1976.

Sobchack, Vivian (ed.). The Persistence of History: Cinema, Television, and the Modern Event. New York: Routledge, 1996.

Solomon, Jon. The Ancient World in the Cinema. South Brunswick, NJ: A. S. Barnes, 1978.

Sorlin, Pierre. The Film in History: Restaging the Past. Totowa, NJ: Barnes & Noble Books, 1980.

Stevens, Donald F. Based on a True Story: Latin American History at the Movies. Wilmington, DE: SR Books, 1997.

Sturken, Marita. Tangled Memories: The Vietnam War, the AIDS Epidemic, and the Politics of Remembering. Berkeley: U. of Calif. Press, 1997.

Toplin, Robert Brent. History by Hollywood: The Use and Abuse of the American Past. Urbana: U. of Illinois Press, 1996.

Toplin, Robert Brent (ed.). Oliver Stone's USA: Film, History, and Controversy. Lawrence: U. Press of Kansas, 2000.

Vidal, Gore. Screening History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard U. Press, 1992.

Wyke, Maria. Projecting the Past: Ancient Rome, Cinema, and History. New York: Routledge, 1997.