Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2011
Summary
The amount of work now being done by historians on and with film and the absence of a substantial survey of the field in English have together made the moment ripe for the production of this book. It aims to say something about almost all the major aspects of historians' interest in film: considerations of size and in one or two cases the absence of a suitably qualified contributor have prevented its coverage from being quite complete.
I have to thank the contributors for giving me a much less harassing passage than falls to the lot of many editors, the staff of the Cambridge University Press for their invaluable encouragement and aid in the project, and my wife, who knows more about all this than I do.
The book has no dedication, but if it did it should perhaps be to the growing band of historians, archivists and others from several countries who, in ‘film and history’ meetings over the last few years, have enlarged not merely their understanding but also their circle of friends.
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- The Historian and Film , pp. viiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1976