Making History Move

KIM NELSON is the director of the Humanities Research Group, and an associate professor of cinema arts in the School of Creative Arts, at the University of Windsor in Canada. Her work has screened at international film festivals and on university campuses across Canada, the US, and Europe and has been broadcast nationally on the Canadian Broadcast Corporation (CBC), as well as online with KCET in the US.

“No one is better suited to undertake this project than Nelson, herself both a filmmaker and a scholar. She builds on the insights of a broad range of scholars in the field to produce what no one has yet achieved: a rigorous, comprehensive, and yet nuanced, account of how moving histories work, providing a powerful methodology for future generations of film scholars.” - Alison Landsberg (author of Engaging the Past: Mass Culture and the Production of Historical Knowledge) "Lucid and engaging, Making History Move directly confronts the theoretical and pragmatic questions that have repeatedly surfaced in studies of history and film.  Nelson illuminates five principles that underpin the representation of the historical past in moving images.  Filled with vivid ideas and marked by rigorous analysis, the book provides a blueprint for a genre that has increasingly shaped the cultural understanding the past."- Robert Burgoyne (author of The New American War Film)

• Introduction1. Principle 1: Perspective2. Principle 2: Evidence3. Principle 3: Reflexivity4. Principle 4: Foreignness5. Principle 5: PluralityConclusion