Footnote #68 - Historiography
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The next Footnote episode of the podcast maps the stakes of telling history and what it means to construct historical narratives through cinema as a form of historical writing. Listen as Fantasy/Animation’s resident lapsed historian Alex takes Chris through the history and theory of making history and doing historical work; verbal and visual discourses of narrativisation in relation to Hayden White’s notions of historiography and historiophoty; distinctions between the fluctuating ‘truths’, poetics, and politics of history; facts and events as non-narrative and empirical; and how the modes and meanings of telling history contribute to the writerly and highly subjective craft of the historian.
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Suggested Readings
Foucault, Michel. 1972. The Archaeology of Knowledge and The Discourse on Language. New York: Pantheon.
Smyth, J. E. 2006. Reconstructing American Historical Cinema: From Cimarron to Citizen Kane. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.
White, Hayden. 1975. Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-century Europe. Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press.
White, Hayden. 1998. “Historiography and Historiophoty.” The American Historical Review 93, no.5 (December): 1193–1199.