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Film and Historiography

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             So, by choosing film because of its popularity and tendency to exaggerate values and Elizabeth I as a basis for comparison, because of the feminist movement I have enabled myself to explore two historiographical concepts on a more modern and amplified level. .
             Film, today, is one of the most efficient and prevalent methods for reaching the wider public. For many people, the historical film is also the main medium for contact with various periods, events and personalities in history. History essays and history books, because of their nature, tend to be read by only a few intellectual historians, or history students and are not generally accessed by the wider public. For the average modern day person history seems too dull, too long, too complicated or just generally incomprehensible. Because of this history tends to be ignored by the wider part of society who believes that it is no longer relevant to their lives. On the other hand we have the billion-dollar feature film industry, which has the chance to access millions of people worldwide, in many countries and many languages. With film comes television, the most effective source of global communication. Naturally, if you put these two elements together, you find that you have the opportunity to share history with the world. Through this, came films based on historical events, personalities and societies. They appealed the wider audience because of the completeness of the work. The costuming, the scenery and the scripts brought the dull intellectual history books to life, and allowed the audience to interact emotionally where they otherwise could not. So, as we look at the popularity of the feature film compared to that of the textbook, we have to ask ourselves, who really are the historians? Are they the stereotypical intellectual university professors or are they the infamous moviemakers in Hollywood? .
             This leads us to ask whether we dare to put our precious history into the hands of the filmmakers, who are neither trained historians nor objective ones? History in film is not required to be objective, or accurate; it has no standards.


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