The Persistence of History: Cinema

<strong></strong><strong><em>The Persistence of History</em></strong> examines how the moving image has completely altered traditional modes of historical thought and representation. Exploring a range of film and video texts, from <em>The Ten Commandments</em> to the Rodney King video, from the projected work of documentarian Errol Morris to Oliver Stones <em>JFK</em> and Spielbergs <em>Schindlers List</em>, the volume questions the appropriate forms of media for making the incoherence and fragmentation of contemporary history intelligible.