 | Using film and television in critical ways has become part of the fabric of society. John O'Connor presents a comprehensive survey of the types of methodological issues that must concern any historian addressing film or television as historical document or artifact. In an effort to train future generations to view everything they see more critically in the light of traditional humanistic values, he has laid out a framework for inquiry. It is
designed to address the different types of investigation in which researchers characteristically use moving image materials and to highlight the varying methodological concerns which each type of argument brings to the fore. |
| | | | $I"...creates a forum of distinction for new ideas in the vivid realm of history...Essays of great merit."$I -- $IThe Book Reader$I, September/ October 1990. $I"This is a key summation of work of the past decade or so. It ought to be in every
university library - highly recommended."$I -- $I Communication Booknotes$I, November/December 1990. $I"...Written for and by historians, its purpose is to develop both a methodological and an applied approach to 'moving image materials' and to create a body of critical scholarship that will enable social scientists to make use of film/tv as historical documentation... A scholarly and artful contribution. Upper-division undergraduates and above."$I -- J. Boskin, Boston
University $ICHOICE$I, October 1991. |
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