Tracing embodied knowledge in the history of science and medicine: expanding the role of film in historical research by Paul Craddock, Anna Harris

“…Thus, extending from Lucien Taylor’s suggestion that ethnography could be conducted ‘filmically’, we argue that, like anthropologists, historians and museum specialists might also accommodate film as part of a serious research methodology, especially when it comes to respecting the integrity of embodied contributions to the history of science and medicine. …”
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“This is 1986. This isn’t like the 60s and 50s”: Locating the Long Civil Rights Narrative in Just Mercy (2019) by Johanne Østergaard, Mikkel Jensen

“…Many historians have heeded Jacqueline Dowd Hall’s call to revise the American civil rights narrative, and this article argues that Destin Daniel Cretton’s Just Mercy (2019) is a part of a wave of “long civil rights films.” …”
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Biophoty: The Biofilm in Biography Theory by Joanny Moulin

“…It begins by looking back to a debate going on in the 1970s and 1980s about whether film was a suitable medium for historiography and historical research, contrasting the reluctance of some American and British researchers like Robert Rosenstone, Ian Jarvie and Belén Vidal with French historian Marc Ferro’s engagement in favour of the use of cinema in history studies, and his contention that “history on film has become a force”. …”
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Méditations sur le « Paradoxe Pulp » : Pal, la Paramount et les pulps de SF by Jay P. Telotte

“…This essay reconsiders what genre historian Bradley Schauer terms the “pulp paradox”, that is, the film industry’s supposed reluctance to produce sf films because of a fear that doing so would associate the movies with “the less reputable variations of the genre” often associated with pulp literature. …”
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Alàgbà Adébáyọ̀ Fálétí as a Yorùbá Novelist by Lere Adeyemi

“…An average Yorùbá reader of Fálétí’s novels, poetry, plays and viewer of his films usually responds with delight because of his powerful use of Yorùbá language and captivating story lines, plot construct, narrative techniques and thematic contents. …”
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The Forgotten : tentative de réappropriation aborigène de l’histoire australienne by Virginie BERNARD

“…I propose to illustrate their efforts through a study of The Forgotten, an Aboriginal short film dedicated to the recognition of the Aboriginal soldiers who fought for Australia, only to be forgotten.…”
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The Relationship between Academic History and Audio-Visual History in Lithuania: A Closing of the Gap? by Rūta Šermukšnytė

“…The enhanced role of historians in the creation of Lithuanian documentary film and television is connected with changes in self-conception among audio-visual communications specialists (authors and their "supervising" critics) as well as among historians; these changes were visible by 1993. …”
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Framing Colomina by Tahl Kaminer

“…Sometime in the 1990s architecture historians shifted their attention from buildings to publications, exhibitions, films and photographs produced by architects. …”
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La guerre et le canon by Michel Matly

“…It shows collective perceptions that are different according to countries and evolve over time, comparable to those identified by the conflict’s memory specialists using other sources such as political speeches, novels or films. This validates comics as pertinent sources for historians or sociologists, but also put our own representation of the war into perspective, as not more than the look of “here and today”. …”
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