The insistent fringe: Moving images and historical consciousness

History and Theory

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 4-20

  Sobchack, Vivian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 61049254965     PISSN: 00182656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0018-2656.00028     Document Type: Review

References (16)

1. Roland Barthes, "The Romans in Films," in Mythologies, transl. Annette Lavers (New York, 1972), 26.
2. M. M. Bakhtin, "Discourse in the Novel," in The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays by M. M. Bakhtin, transl. M. Holquist, ed. M. Holquist and C. Emerson (Austin, 1981), 292.
3. Bakhtin, "Discourse in the Novel," 291.
4. Susan Buck-Morss, The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project (Cambridge, Mass. , 1991), 336.
5. Claude Lévi-Strauss, The Savage Mind (Chicago, 1966), 263.
6. S. Paige Baty, American Monroe: The Making of a Body Politic (Berkeley, 1995), 60.
7. Barthes, "The Romans in Film," 28.
8. Buck-Morss, The Dialectics of Seeing, 210-212.
9. Robert Rosenstone, Visions of the Past: The Challenge of Film to Our Idea of History (Cambridge, Mass. , 1995), 23.
10. Walter Benjamin, "One Way Street," transl. Edmund Jephcott, in Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 1 (1913-1926), ed. Marcus Bullock and Michael W. Jennings (Cambridge, Mass. , 1996), 466.
11. Vivian Sobchack, '"Surge and Splendor': A Phenomenology of the Hollywood Historical Epic," Representations 29 (Winter 1990), 36.
12. Roland Barthes, "The Third Meaning," in Image, Music, Text, transl. Stephen Heath (New York, 1977), 64.
13. For further elaboration on how the visual image "means," and how it effects less a "language robbery" than a mode of visual "typification" (what I argue here as generalization), T would direct the reader to Hayden White, "AHR Forum: Historiography and Historiophoty," American Historical Review 93 (December 1988), 1193-1199.
14. Michel de Certeau, The Writing of History, transl. Tom Conley (New York, 1988), 100.
15. Christopher Reynolds, "An Archeology Spectacular: Unearthing the Set of DeMille's 1923 'Ten Commandments,"' Los Angeles Times (20 November 1990), Fl.
16. Reynolds, "An Archeology Spectacular," Fl.