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Robert A. Rosenstone

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According to Wikipedia, Robert A. Rosenstone is an American author, historian, and Professor Emeritus of history at the California Institute of Technology. He is the leading international scholar in the fast growing field devoted to studying the relationship between history and the visual media. He has written two books on the topic, "Visions of the Past: the Challenge of Film to Our Idea of History" , and "History on Film / Film on History" , and has edited an influential collections of essays, "Revisioning History: Film and the Construction of a New Past" . His most recent addition to the field , "A Blackwell Companion to Historical Film." consists of 25 original essays by scholars from six continents which assess the state of the field worldwide today.

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Robert A. Rosenstone's Published Works

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Racist War for Civilization@@@War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War. (1987) (514)
Visions of the Past: The Challenge of Film to Our Idea of History (1996) (323)
History on Film/Film on History (2006) (141)
History in Images/History in Words: Reflections on the Possibility of Really Putting History onto Film (1988) (122)
Revisioning History. Film and the Construction of a New Past (1995) (104)
Experiments in Rethinking History (2004) (45)
The Historical Film as Real History (2018) (40)
Mirror in the shrine : American encounters with Meiji Japan (1988) (39)
The Federal (Mostly Non-) Writers' Project@@@The Federal Writers' Project: A Study in Government Patronage of the Arts. (1978) (25)
"The Times They Are A-Changin"' : The Music of Protest (1969) (24)
JFK: Historical Fact/Historical Film (1992) (20)
A companion to the historical film (2013) (18)
Romantic Revolutionary: A Biography of John Reed (1975) (17)
Crusade of the Left: The Lincoln Battalion in the Spanish Civil War (1969) (16)
Revisioning history : film and the construction of a new past (1996) (15)
The Reel Joan of Arc: Reflections on the Theory and Practice of the Historical Film (2003) (13)
Does a Filmic Writing of History Exist (2002) (13)
Oliver Stone as Historian (2000) (12)
Learning from Those "Imitative" Japanese: Another Side of the American Experience in the Mikado's Empire (1980) (10)
October as History (2001) (10)
Confessions of a postmodern (?) historian (2004) (10)
Why is there no socialism in the United States (1978) (10)
The History Film as a Mode of Historical Thought (2013) (8)
The Visual Media and Historical Knowledge (2007) (6)
Inventing Historical Truth on the Silver Screen (2012) (6)
Comments on Science in the Visual Media (2003) (6)
The Men of the Abraham Lincoln Battalion (1967) (6)
"like writing history with lighting": film historique/vérité historique (1995) (6)
A Companion to the Historical Film: Rosenstone/A Companion to the Historical Film (2013) (5)
A historian in spite of myself (2007) (4)
History on film/film on history 3rd Ed. (2018) (4)
Historical Film/Historical Thought (2003) (4)
What's a nice historian like you doing in a place like this? (2009) (3)
Revisioning History: Contemporary Filmmakers and the Construction of the Past (1990) (3)
Walker: the dramatic film as historical truth . (1992) (3)
Film on history (2017) (2)
Buried in a footnote (2010) (2)
The Crisis of History/the Promise of Film (1996) (2)
A History of What Has Not Yet Happened (2000) (2)
Protest in the sixties (1969) (2)
13. Walker (2020) (1)
The power of the other : Edward S. Morse and the challenge of Japan (1980) (1)
To see the past (2017) (1)
The Real Red Menace (2005) (1)
History in images / history in words : reflections on the possibility of really putting history on film (or what a historian begins to think about when people start turning his books into movies) (1986) (1)
History on film (2014) (1)
Film and This Issue (2000) (1)
Seediq Bale as history (2017) (1)
Hitler and Hollywood (2015) (1)
"Reds" as history (1982) (1)
King of Odessa (2003) (0)
Reflections on What the Filmmaker Historian Does (to History) (2015) (0)
Introduction (1969) (0)
Melvyn Stokes, American History through Hollywood Film: From the Revolution to the 1960s (London: Bloomsbury, 2013, £19.99). Pp. 272. isbn 978 1 4411 7952 2. (2015) (0)
A Look at the Radical Right Today (1968) (0)
The Comintern Paves the Way (2018) (0)
The Road to Battle (2018) (0)
Morse at Enoshima and Tokyo (1984) (0)
The Wages of Discipline (2018) (0)
Editorial (2000) (0)
Chapter II-2 - Edward S. Morse grows up (1983) (0)
What’s a nice narrative historian like me doing at a conference like this? (2021) (0)
It is time to end (the) defensive posture and to adopt a different way of looking at historical films, to suggest that such works have already been doing history. (2008) (0)
Reflections: The Man Who Swam Out of History: Spain (2009) (0)
Learning from those "imitative" Japanese : Edward S. Morse and the civilization of the Mikado's empire (1978) (0)
Hearn in Matsue (1984) (0)
Chapter I - Landing in Japan (1983) (0)
The Modern School Movement: Anarchism and Education in the United States. By Paul Avrich. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980. xiii + 447 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $30.00; paper, $12.50.) (1981) (0)
The Plains of Brunete (2018) (0)
Reel History: In Defense of Hollywood. By Robert Brent Toplin (Lawrence, University Press of Kansas, 2004) 232 pp. $35.00 (2006) (0)
Chapter 1 DISCOVERY OF PASTS (2004) (0)
Melvyn Stokes, American History through Hollywood Film: From the Revolution tothe 1960s [Book Review] (2015) (0)
Hearn from Leucadia to Martinique (1984) (0)
From Mirror in the Shrine: American Encounters with Meiji Japan (1988) (2020) (0)
Introduction (2001) (0)
Engaging the discourse (2017) (0)
CURT LAMB. Political Power in Poor Neighborhoods. Pp. 315. New York: Halsted Press, 1975. $19.50. Paperbound, $9.50 (1976) (0)
An Untarnished Epic (2018) (0)
American Rebels and the Quest for Self@@@Romantic Revolutionary: A Biography of John Reed.@@@Upton Sinclair: American Rebel. (1976) (0)
Generals of the Rear (2018) (0)
The Mind of the Volunteer (2018) (0)
Film-maker/historian (2017) (0)
Chapter II-1- William E. Griffis grows up (1983) (0)
Adventures of a postmodern historian – Japan (2016) (0)
Summing Up the Division of the Left@@@The Divided Left: American Radicalism, 1900-1975. (1979) (0)
Those Who Volunteered (2018) (0)
Genres, History, and Hollywood. A Review Article (1985) (0)
Adventures of a postmodern historian (2016) (0)
The War That Won’t Die: the Spanish Civil War in cinema (2014) (0)
The salon of Mabel Dodge (1979) (0)
Adventures of a Postmodern Historian: Living and Writing the Past (2016) (0)
What You Think About When You Think About Writing a Book on History and Film (1990) (0)
Kipling's Japan: Collected Writings.@@@Mirror in the Shrine: American Encounters with Meiji Japan. (1989) (0)
The Snows of Teruel (2018) (0)
Americans Abroad@@@Mirror in the Shrine: American Encounters with Meiji Japan. (1989) (0)
Radicalism and the limits of reform : the case of John Reed (1980) (0)
Comrades and Commissars: The Lincoln Battalion in the Spanish Civil War. By Cecil D. Eby. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007. xvi, 510 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-271-02910-8.) (2007) (0)
Notes on Contributors (2001) (0)
Madrid Is the Heart (2018) (0)
Morse Returns in 1882 (1984) (0)
Spaseeba, Tricky Dick! Research and the Cold War (2003) (0)
Offensive On the Ebro (2018) (0)
World in Crisis (2018) (0)
Chapter IV-1 - Griffis in Tokyo (1983) (0)
The Soldiers Become Veterans (2018) (0)
Collapse in Aragon (2018) (0)
Notes on Contributors (2000) (0)
Editorial (2003) (0)
Red Star, Crescent Moon: A Muslim-Jewish Love Story (2010) (0)
The Lessons of War (2018) (0)
Bruce D. Johnson. Marijuana Users and Drug Subcultures. Pp. vii, 290. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1973. $12.95 (1974) (0)
Interview with Robert A. Rosenstone (2011) (0)
The historical film as a field, a mode of thought (historying) and a prack of tricks we play upon the dead (2013) (0)
Reel History: In Defense of Hollywood (review) (2006) (0)
A Muslim-Jewish Pilgrimage (2016) (0)
Editorial: In this issue of Rethinking History (1998) (0)
Epilogue : The view from 2017 (2017) (0)
Seasons of rebellion;: Protest and radicalism in recent America (1972) (0)
Quinto and Belchite: The Apogee (2018) (0)
A Valley Called Jarama (2018) (0)
Manchester Boddy and the L.A. Daily News (1970) (0)
Izzy the Red (2002) (0)

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