Film & History, January 1st, 2007
HISTORY ON FILM/FILM ON HISTORY. Robert A. Rosenstone. Pearson, 2006. 182 pages; $26.00. REAL MCLUHAN In Woody Allen's Annie Hall, the director's alter ego, Alvy Singer, is annoyed in a movie line when the person behind him (a media studies professor) pontificates upon the media theories of Marshall McLuhan. A frustrated Singer then produces the real McLuhan, who informs the verbose professor that he has no understanding of modern media. When my colleagues in the historical profession dismiss film history or narrowly focus their film commentaries upon cinematic adherence to historical detail...
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