Kurzus nemzetközi vendég- és részidős hallgatóknak
- Kar
- Bölcsészettudományi Kar
- Szervezet
- BTK Történeti Intézet
- Kód
- BA-ERA-IHS-S-7
- Cím
- Film and History: Visual Representation of the Past
- Tervezett félév
- Őszi
- ECTS
- 6
- Nyelv
- Oktatás célja
- Instructor: Mónika Mátay ELTE Budapest, Economic and Social History Department E-mail: matay.monika@btk.elte.hu Aim of the course: Since the beginning of the 20th century, the moving picture has become an even more integral part of human history. Paraphrasing John Austin’s seminal question, How to do things with words, we can ask: how to do things with films? Film techniques are useful analytical tools for understanding their influences and manipulative potential; however, beyond that, we can examine films in many other ways. How did electronic visual images change our perception of reality? How did films influence knowledge in history, geography, and other fields? How did values transmitted through films shape social life, communication, and behaviour? During the seminars, we watch and analyse essential and influential European films to gain a deeper understanding of the relationship between the modern social world and the moving image. These class discussions aim to place the films within their original political and cultural contexts to understand their impacts better.
- Tantárgy tartalma
- Week 1 Introduction Week 2 Filmmaking and Making History Blow Up (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTaKAAkR2fw Burke, Peter, Interrogating the Eyewitness. Cultural and Social History December 2010, 435–443. (pdf file uploaded) Week 3 Under the Microscope Ginzburg, Carlo, Microhistory: Two or Three Things That I Know about It. Critical Inquiry 1993, vol. 20. n. 1. 10–35. (pdf file uploaded) https://www.jstor.org/stable/1343946#metadata_info_tab_contents Ghobrial, John-Paul A., Introduction: Seeing the world like a microhistorian. Past & Present Vol. 242. issue supplement 14, November 2019, 1–22. (pdf file uploaded) Levi, Giovanni, On Microhistory. In Burke, Peter Ed. New Perspectives on Historical Writing. Cambridge, 1991. 97–119. (pdf file uploaded) Ginzburg, Carlo, Microhistory (2015). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFh1DdXToyE Week 4 The Return of Martin Guerre on film The return of Martin Guerre (Daniel Vigne, 1982) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AN8bS3bvlM Week 5 The return of Martin Guerre: historical analysis Davis, Natalie Zemon, The return of Martin Guerre. Cambridge, Mass., London, 1983. (pdf file uploaded) file:///C:/Users/x/Downloads/NatalieZemonDavisTheReturnofMartinGuerre.pdf Week 6 The film, the book & the author Benson, Ed, Martin Guerre, the Historian and the Filmmakers: An Interview with Natalie Zemon Davis. Film & History vol. 13., n. 3., September 1983. 49–65. (pdf uploaded) Finlay, Robert, The Refashioning of Martin Guerre. The American Historical Review Vol. 93., N. 3., June 1988. 553–571. (pdf uploaded) Davis, Natalie Zemon, Remaking Impostors. Royal Holloway, University of London, 1995. (pdf uploaded) Week 7 Nazi propaganda: who is witnessing? The Eternal Jew (1940) Martin, Tracey, How Germany convinced the Masses. History in the Making January 2020. (pdf uploaded) Week 8 Witnessing the German Mission Riefenstahl, Leni, Triumph of the Will (1935). Riefenstahl, Leni, Olympia. Festival of Beauty (1936). Soussloff, Catherine M. - Nichols, Bill, Leni Riefenstahl: The Power of the Image. Discourse, Spring 1996, Vol. 18. No. 3. 20-44. (pdf uploaded) Week 9 The Arsenic Poisoners Angelmakers (2005) Week 10 Talking history Monument to the murderers (documentary, 2021) Deák, István, Endgame in Budapest. The Hungarian Quarterly 2005, No. 179. 96-109. (pdf uploaded) Week 11 The Historian and the Witness Burke, Peter, Eyewitnessing. The Uses of Images as Historical Evidence. London: Reaktion Books, 2001. 157-168. (pdf uploaded) Week 12 Discussing readings Week 13 Discussing readings
- Számonkérés és értékelés
- Final grade: Attendance and participation in class discussions (50%), powerpoint presentation (25%), short essay (25%).
- Irodalomjegyzék
- Burke, Peter, Interrogating the Eyewitness. Cultural and Social History December 2010, 435–443. Ginzburg, Carlo, Microhistory: Two or Three Things That I Know about It. Critical Inquiry 1993, vol. 20. n. 1. 10–35. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1343946#metadata_info_tab_contents Ghobrial, John-Paul A., Introduction: Seeing the world like a microhistorian. Past & Present Vol. 242. issue supplement 14, November 2019, 1–22. Levi, Giovanni, On Microhistory. In Burke, Peter Ed. New Perspectives on Historical Writing. Cambridge, 1991. 97–119. Ginzburg, Carlo, Microhistory (2015). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFh1DdXToyE Davis, Natalie Zemon, The return of Martin Guerre. Cambridge, Mass., London, 1983. Benson, Ed, Martin Guerre, the Historian and the Filmmakers: An Interview with Natalie Zemon Davis. Film & History vol. 13., n. 3., September 1983. 49–65. (pdf uploaded) Finlay, Robert, The Refashioning of Martin Guerre. The American Historical Review Vol. 93., N. 3., June 1988. 553–571. Davis, Natalie Zemon, Remaking Impostors. Royal Holloway, University of London, 1995. Martin, Tracey, How Germany convinced the Masses. History in the Making January 2020. Soussloff, Catherine M. - Nichols, Bill, Leni Riefenstahl: The Power of the Image. Discourse, Spring 1996, Vol. 18. No. 3. 20-44. Deák, István, Endgame in Budapest. The Hungarian Quarterly 2005, No. 179. 96-109. Burke, Peter, Eyewitnessing. The Uses of Images as Historical Evidence. London: Reaktion Books, 2001. 157-168.