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Abstract For the past four years at the National University of Singapore I have taught a fourth-year Honours seminar called Film and History, originally designed to compare and contrast the ways in which films of the Middle Ages and those of more recent history (1860-1940) reconstruct the past. (The most significant biassing factor is that the films considered are European …

Uploaded 29 May 1998 The most synthetic of all art forms, film is the space in which the representative and symbolic birth of a female person can take place through the reconstruction of her history. [1] In Australian feminist cinema Jeni Thornley is the filmmaker who has been most preoccupied with the reconstruction of her own history over a series …