Background
Rosenstone, Robert Allan was born on May 12, 1936 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Son of Louis and Anne (Kramer) Rosenstone.
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Based on the travels of Griffis, Morse, and Hearn in the late 1800s, these stories evoke the immediacy of daily experience in Meiji, Japan, a nation still feudal in many of its habits yet captivating to Westerners for its gentleness, beauty, and pure charm.
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Between 1936 and 1938, some 3,000 young Americans sailed to France and crossed the Pyrenees to take part in the brutal civil war raging in Spain. Virtually all joined the International Brigades, formed under the auspices of the Soviet-led Comintern and largely directed by Communists. Yet a large number were not Communists; their activism was inspired by domestic and international crises of the 1930s, and colored by idealism. The men who went to Spain came out of a radical subculture that emerged from the Depression and the New Deal. Th is radicalism was a native plant, but it was nourished from abroad. In the thirties the menace of fascism seemed to be spreading like cancer across Europe, giving an international aspect to many domestic problems in the United States. To intellectuals, students, unionists, liberals, and leftists, the threat of fascism was so real that many came to believe that if it was not stopped in Spain, eventually they would have to take up arms against fascism at home. To understand the Americans who fought in the Spanish Civil War it is necessary to bury some of the shibboleths of cold war years. Dissidence in the United States occurs in response to perceptions of reality on this side of the Atlantic, not because of the wishes of men in the Soviet Union. Th e members of the Lincoln Battalion were genuine products of America, and their story is properly a page in American military and political history. From them, one can learn much about the world of the 1930s and perhaps even something about the potential of modern man for thought and action in time of crisis.
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( Can filmed history measure up to written history? What...)
Can filmed history measure up to written history? What happens to history when it is recorded in images, rather than words? Can images convey ideas and information that lie beyond words? Taking on these timely questions, Robert Rosenstone pioneers a new direction in the relationship between history and film. Rosenstone moves beyond traditional approaches, which examine the history of film as art and industry, or view films as texts reflecting their specific cultural contexts. This essay collection makes a radical venture into the investigation of a new concern: how a visual medium, subject to the conventions of drama and fiction, might be used as a serious vehicle for thinking about our relationship with the past. Rosenstone looks at history films in a way that forces us to reconceptualize what we mean by "history." He explores the innovative strategies of films made in Africa, Latin America, Germany, and other parts of the world. He journeys into the history of film in a wide range of cultures, and expertly traces the contours of the postmodern historical film. In essays on specific films, including Reds, JFK, and Sans Soleil, he considers such issues as the relationship between fact and film and the documentary as visionary truth. Theorists have for some time been calling our attention to the epistemological and literary limitations of traditional history. The first sustained defense of film as a way of thinking historically, this book takes us beyond those limitations.
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Rosenstone, Robert Allan was born on May 12, 1936 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Son of Louis and Anne (Kramer) Rosenstone.
Bachelor, University of California at Los Angeles, 1958. Master of Arts, University of California at Los Angeles, 1960. Doctor of Philosophy, University of California at Los Angeles, 1965.
Assistant professor University Oregon, Eugene, 1965-1966. From assistant professor to associate professor to professor history California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, since 1966. Visiting professor Kyushu University, Japan, 1974-1975, University Barcelona, Spain, 1994, University La Laguna, Canary Islands, Spain, 1994.
Visiting chair European University Institute, Florence, Italy, 1998. Visiting lecturer European Humanities Research Center, Oxford, England, 1997. Consultant.
( Can filmed history measure up to written history? What...)
(Based on the travels of Griffis, Morse, and Hearn in the ...)
( Between 1936 and 1938, some 3,000 young Americans sail...)
(Mirror in the Shrine : American Encounters with Meiji Jap...)
With United States Army 1960-1962. Member American History Association (various awards committees), Organization American Historians (Eric Barnouw award committee), Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association (awards committee).
Married Nahid Massoud, March 19, 1997.