Clio in words and in motion: Practices of narrating the past

Journal of American History

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 987-1012

  Ramirez, Bruno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

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EID: 33750241753     PISSN: 00218723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2568603     Document Type: Article

References (73)

1. Italo Calvino, "Autobiografia di uno spettatore" (Autobiography of a moviegoer), preface, in Federico Fellini, Quattro Film (Four films) (Turin, 1975), xiii. Translation into English from Italian and French was done by Bruno Ramirez.
2. Bruno Ramirez, When Workers Fight: The Politics of Industrial Relations in the Progressive Era, 1898-1916 (Westport, 1978).
3. Gisela Bock, Paolo Carpignano, and Bruno Ramirez, La formazione dell'operaio massa negli USA, 1898-1922 (The making of the mass-production worker in the United States, 1898-1922) (Milan, 1976).
4. Hugh MacLellan, Two Solitudes (Toronto, 1945).
5. For the importance of French Canadian history to a continental perspective on United States history, see Bruno Ramirez, "Shifting Perspectives from the North: Quebec," Journal of American History, 79 (Sept. 1992), 477-84.
6. Robert F. Harney's premature death in 1988 prevented him from consolidating his research into book form. For some of his most important essays and a complete bibliography, see Pierre Anctil and Bruno Ramirez, eds., If One Were to Write a History . . . : Selected Writings by Robert F. Harney (Toronto, 1991).
7. Herbert G. Gutman, "Work, Culture, and Society in Industrializing America, 1815-1919," American Historical Review, 78 (June 1973), 531-88.
8. Bruno Ramirez, Les premiers Italiens de Montréal: Naissance de la Petite Italie du Québec (The first Italians of Montreal: The birth of Quebec's Little Italy) (Montreal, 1984), 91, 122-23.
9. La storia, dir. Nick Zavaglia (Télé-Québec, 1984).
10. e siècle" (A project of historical research: The emigration of French Canadians during the nineteenth century), Recherches sociographiques (Quebec City), 2 (April-June 1961), 244.
11. For the Quebec historian, see Yves Roby, Les Franco-Américains de la Nouvelle-Angleterre, 1776-1930 (New England's Franco-Americans, 1776-1930) (Sillery, 1990).
12. For a Montreal-based, English-speaking historian, see Frances Early, "French-Canadian Beginnings in an American Community: Lowell, Massachusetts, 1868-1886" (Ph.D. diss., Concordia University, 1979).
13. For the historical demographer and the cultural anthropologist, see Yolande Lavoie, L'émigration des Canadiens aux États-Unis avant 1930. Mesure du phénomène (The emigration of Canadians to the United States before 1930. Quantifying the phenomenon) (Montreal, 1972);
14. and Pierre Anctil, "Aspects of Class Ideology in a New England Minority: The Franco-Americans of Woonsocket, Rhode Island, 1865-1929" (Ph.D. diss., New School of Social Research, 1980).
15. For subsequent historiographical developments, see Bruno Ramirez, "Emigration et Franco-Américanie: Bilan historiographique" (Emigration and Franco-Americanness: A historiographical survey), in Le Québec et les francophones de la Nouvelle-Angleterre (Quebec and New England's francophones), ed. Dean Louder (Quebec City, 1991), 3-12.
16. See, for example, Ralph Vicero, "Immigration of French Canadians to New England, 1840-1900: A Geographical Analysis" (Ph.D. diss., University of Wisconsin, 1968);
17. Philip T. Sylvia Jr., "The Spindle City: Labor, Politics, and Religion in Fall River, Massachusetts, 1870-1905" (Ph.D. diss., Fordham University, 1973);
18. Tamara K. Hareven, "The Laborers of Manchester, New Hampshire, 1912-1922: The Role of Family and Ethnicity in Adjustments to Industrial Life," Labor History, 16 (Spring 1975), 249-65;
19. Tamara K. Hareven and Randolph Langenback, Amoskeag: Life and Work in an American Factory-City (New York, 1978);
20. Daniel J. Walkowitz, Worker City, Company Town: Iron-and Cotton-Worker Protest in Troy and Cohoes, New York, 1855-1884 (Chicago, 1978);
21. and John T. Cumbler, Working-Class Community in Industrial America: Work, Usure, and Struggle in Two Industrial Cities, 1880-1930 (Westport, 1979).
22. For an exhaustive bibliography, see Yves Roby, "Quebec in the United States: A Historiographical Survey," Maine Historical Society Quarterly, 26 (Winter 1987), 126-59.
23. See especially Brinley Thomas, Migration and Economic Growth: A Study of Great Britain and the Atlantic Economy (Cambridge, Eng., 1954);
24. e Congrès International des Sciences Historiques, Rapports (Uppsala, 1960), 32-60;
25. and, more recently, Dirk Hoerder, ed., Labor Migration in the Atlantic Economies: The European and North American Working Classes during the Period of Industrialization (Westport, 1985).
26. Bruno Ramirez, On The Move: French-Canadian and Italian Migrants in the North Atlantic Economy, 1860-1914 (Toronto, 1991).
27. For a skillfull discussion of the use of scale in historical analysis, see Richard White, "The Nationalization of Nature," Journal of American History, 86 (Dec. 1999), 976-86.
28. Ramirez, On The Move, 13.
29. For aspects of the Canadian multicultural experience analyzed from a transnational perspective, see Bruno Ramirez, "The Perils of Assimilation: Toward a Comparative Analysis of Immigration, Ethnicity, and National Identity in North America," in From Melting Pot to Multiculturalism, ed. Valeria Gennaro Lerda (Rome, 1990), 143-67;
30. Bruno Ramirez, "Les études ethniques et le multiculturalisme au Canada: Vers des nouvelles perspectives" (Ethnic studies and multiculturalism in Canada: Toward some new perspectives), Revue internationale d'études canadiennes (Ottawa), 3 (Spring 1991), 171-81;
31. Bruno Ramirez, "Il Canada, l'immigrazione e il multiculturalismo: Genesi di una storiografia" (Canada, immigration, and multiculturalism: Genesis of a historiography), Studi Emigrazione/Études Migration (Rome), 28 (no. 101, 1991), 49-58;
32. and Bruno Ramirez, "Multiculturalism, Immigration, and Ethnic Relations: Canada and the U.S.A. Compared," in Multiculturalism and the History of International Relations front the 18th Century to the Present, ed. Brunello Vigezzi and Pierre Savard (Ottawa and Milan, 1999), 123-34.
33. For the most penetrating discussion of Canadian multiculturalism, see Robert F. Harney, '"So Great a Heritage as Ours': Immigration and the Survival of the Canadian Polity," Daedalus, 117 (Fall 1988), 51-97.
34. For Vincenzo Cappa's statement, see Caffé Italia, Montréal, dir. Paul Tana (ACPAV, 1985).
35. La Sarrasine, dir. Paul Tana (ACPAV, 1992).
36. For the transformation of a topic of historical inquiry into a film subject and then to a screenplay, see Bruno Ramirez, "The Other Frontier: A Montreal Story," Vice Versa (Montreal), 21 (Nov. 1987), 23-24;
37. and Bruno Ramirez and Paul Tana, Sarrasine, a Screenplay (Toronto, 1996).
38. See also Robert Harney, "The Immigrant City," Vice Versa, 24 (June 1988), 4-6.
39. For the transnational character of migration history as well as the practice it entails, see Donna R. Gabaccia, "Is Everywhere Nowhere? Nomads, Nations, and the Immigrant Paradigm of United States History," Journal of American History, 86 (Dec. 1999), 1115-34.
40. Lawrence of Arabia, dir. David Lean (Horizon Pictures Ltd., 1962);
41. Saving Private Ryan, dir. Steven Spielberg (Paramount Pictures, 1999);
42. Robert F. Harney, "Men without Women: Italian Migrants in Canada, 1885-1930," in The Italian Immigrant Woman in North America, ed. Betty Boyd Caroli, Robert F. Harney, and Lydio F. Tomasi (Toronto, 1978), 79-101;
43. Caffé Italia, Montréal.
44. Arthur Miller, "On Broadway: Notes on the Past and Future of American Theater," Harper's, 298 (March 1999), 42.
45. Bruno Ramirez, Crossing the 49th Parallel: Migration from Canada to the United States, 1900-1930 (Ithaca, forthcoming).
46. For a recent discussion of the politics and economics of history textbook writing in the United States, see Alexander Stille, "The Betrayal of History," New York Review of Books, June 11, 1998, pp. 15-20.
47. For a discussion of successful historical docudramas, see Robert Brent Toplin, "The Filmmaker as Historian," American Historical Review, 93 (Dec. 1988), 1210-27.
48. John Tibbetts, review of L.A. Confidential dir. by Curtis Hanson, American Historical Review, 102 (Dec. 1997), 1599.
49. Robert A. Rosenstone, "History in Images/History in Words: Reflections on the Possibility of Really Putting History into Film," American Historical Review, 93 (Dec. 1988), 1173.
50. See especially Daniel J. Walkowitz, "Visual History. The Craft of the Historian-Filmmaker," Public Historian, 7 (Winter 1985), 53-63;
51. Robert Brent Toplin, History by Hollywood: The Use and Abuse of the American Past (Urbana, 1996);
52. and Robert A. Rosenstone, Visions of the Past: The Challenge of Film to Our Idea of History (Cambridge, Mass., 1995).
53. The question of how viewers respond to, or read, a film or television narrative has given rise to a new field of inquiry, reception studies. See David Thelen, Becoming Citizens in the Age of Television (Chicago, 1996);
54. and Rob Kroes, "America and the European Sense of History," Journal of American History, 86 (Dec. 1999), 1135-55.
55. Caffé Italia, Montréal.
56. Paul Ricoeur, "Life in Quest of Narrative," in On Paul Ricoeur. Narrative and Interpretation, ed. David Wood (New York, 1991), 23.
57. The Birth of a Nation, dir. David W. Griffith (Epoch Producing Corporation, 1915);
58. Gone with the Wind, dir. Victor Fleming (Selznick International Pictures, 1939);
59. Saving Private Ryan.
60. The Return of Martin Guerre, dir. Daniel Vigne (CCFC, 1982).
61. See also Ed Benson, "Martin Guerre: The Historian and the Filmmaker: An Interview with Nathalie Zemon Davis," Film and History, 13 (Sept. 1983), 55-58;
62. and Nathalie Zemon Davis, "Any Resemblance to Persons Living or Dead: Film and the Challenge of Authenticity," Yale Review, 76 (Sept. 1987), 461-77.
63. Giuseppe di Lampedusa, The Leopard, trans. Archibald Colqhoun (New York, 1960);
64. The Leopard, dir. Luchino Visconti (SGC and Titanus, 1963).
65. The Crucible, dir. Nicholas Hytner (20th Century Fox, 1996);
66. Edmund S. Morgan, "Bewitched," New York Review of Books, Jan. 9, 1997, p. 4.
67. Matewan, dir. John Sayles (Goldcrest Films, Ltd., 1987);
68. "A Conversation between Eric Foner and John Sayles," in Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies, ed. Ted Mico, John Miller-Monzon, and David Rubel (New York, 1995), 13.
69. La Sarrasine.
70. La déroute, dir. Paul Tana (ACPAV, 1998).
71. Simon Schama, "Clio at the Multiplex: What Hollywood and Herodotus Have in Common," New Yorker, Jan. 19, 1998, pp. 38-45.
72. Thelen, Becoming Citizens in the Age of Television, 3.
73. Amistad, dir. Steven Spielberg (Paramount Pictures, 1997).