Author Archive for: ‘Robert A. Rosenstone’

Uploaded 18 April 1999 First published American Historical Review 93, no.5 (December 1988): 1173-1185 For an academic historian to become involved in the world of motion pictures is at once an exhilarating and disturbing experience. Exhilarating for all the obvious reasons: the power of the visual media; the opportunity to emerge from the lonely depths of the library to join with other …

Uploaded 16 April 1999 Begin at the beginning. Which beginning? The 1988 AHR Forum. A historical mistake or an idea whose time had come. A breakthrough into a new field or the beginning of the end of history as we know it. Take your pick. Like all moments it was over determined. The coming together of too many lines of force, moments, …