{"product_id":"slaves-on-screen-paperback-by-natalie-zemon-davis","title":"Slaves on Screen Paperback by Natalie Zemon Davis","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n                            \n                                \n                                    \u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n                                    \u003cul\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cb\u003eVintage Canada\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e(2000-03-14)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003eEnglish\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e176\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003epages\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e9780679310235\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eItem Weight\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e153.09\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003egrams\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e8.0 x 5.2 x 0.5\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003ecm\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                    \u003c\/ul\u003e\n                                    \u003cbr\u003e\n                                    \u003cp\u003ePeople have been experimenting with different ways to write history for 2,500 years, yet we have experimented with film in the same way for only a century. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNoted professor and historian Natalie Zemon Davis, consultant for the film \u003ci\u003eThe Return of Martin Guerre\u003c\/i\u003e, argues that movies can do much more than recreate exciting events and the external look of the past in costumes and sets. Film can show millions of viewers the sentiments, experiences and practices of a group, a period and a place; it can suggest the hidden processes and conflicts of political and family life. And film has the potential to show the past accurately, wedding the concerns of the historian and the filmmaker. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo explore the achievements and flaws of historical films in differing traditions, Davis uses two themes: slavery, and women in political power. She shows how slave resistance and the memory of slavery are represented through such films as Stanley Kubrick's \u003ci\u003eSpartacus\u003c\/i\u003e, Steven Spielberg's \u003ci\u003eAmistad\u003c\/i\u003e and Jonathan Demme's \u003ci\u003eBeloved\u003c\/i\u003e. Then she considers the portrayal of queens from John Ford's \u003ci\u003eMary of Scotland\u003c\/i\u003e and Shekhar Kapur's \u003ci\u003eElizabeth\u003c\/i\u003e to John Madden's \u003ci\u003eMrs. Brown\u003c\/i\u003e and compares them with the cinematic treatments of Eva Peron and Golda Meir.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis visionary book encourages readers to consider history films both appreciatively and critically, while calling historians and filmmakers to a new collaboration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                                    \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                                    \u003cp\u003eNatalie Zemon Davis is the author of several books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Return of Martin Guerre\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWomen on the Margins: Three Seventeenth-Century Lives\u003c\/i\u003e. Davis is the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton University and Adjunct Professor of History and Senior Fellow, Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto. Davis lives in Toronto with her family.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                                \n                            \n                            \u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Best Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":45352920973473,"sku":"BBSNIJ9780679310235","price":21.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/2084\/5473\/files\/9780679310235.jpg?v=1762956531","url":"https:\/\/www.bestbookstore.ca\/products\/slaves-on-screen-paperback-by-natalie-zemon-davis","provider":"Best Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}