Film history
Film history aims to recover information about the past through an examination of film texts. As the discipline has evolved various issues have emerged for historians working in this field, including the need to be aware of the context a film was made in (including the circumstances of production as well as wider societal considerations), the complexity of meanings which this medium can yield and the importance of understanding how films were received at the time. The changing world of popular culture which the cinema inhabits, with growing competition from other forms of entertainment, is another factor which must be borne in mind.
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- Themes:
- Cultural history
Social history
Related publications
- Anthony Aldgate, British Cinema History, 1930–1995 (Milton Keynes, 1997)
