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| | Early Modern Resources » Historians and Historical Film |
 | | Indeed, I feel that commercial filmmakers frequently underestimate their audiences, and in shackling themselves to conventions, frustratingly miss opportunities to tell much richer stories; but, that, after all, is not confined simply to historical film. |
 | | The ‘languages’ of 8216;historiography’; and ‘historiophoty’ (to use Hayden White’s term) [6] may differ, but the principles behind learning to ‘read’ them are in many ways the same. |
 | | From the historian and teacher’s point of view, it is crucial to stimulate critical viewing practices: most of all, perhaps, with those films that make the most explicit claims to offer the truth. |
| www.earlymodernweb.org.uk /emr/index.php/early-modernity-on-film/historians-and-historical-film (1409 words) |
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