1. Introduction: memory, history, cinema

2. Historians and historical films

Davis, N. Z. 2003. "Movie or Monograph? A Historian/Filmmaker’s Perspective." The Public historian 25(3):45.

3. Writing vs. showing (hi)story

White, Hayden. "Historiography and Historiophoty." The American Historical Review 93.5 (1988): 1193-1199.

4. Research, costume drama, experiment

Rosen, Philip. Change Mummified: Cinema, Historicity, Theory. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2001. (Selections)

5. Politics of historical films, nostalgia, trauma

Foucault, Michel. "Film and Popular Memory." In Foucault Live: Interviews, 1966-84, 89-106. New York: Semiotext(e), 1989.

6. Other uses: historiography and pedagogy

Marcus, Alan S. "" It is as it was": Feature film in the history classroom." The Social Studies 96.2 (2005): 61-67.

MIDTERM test

7. Useful inventions

Screening: Glory (Edward Zwick, 1989)

8. Historical character and memory

Screening: The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966)

9. Reflexivity

Screening: Walker (Alex Cox, 1987)

10. Czechoslovak history: take one

Screening: Riders in the Sky (Jindřich Polák, 1968)

11. Czechoslovak history: take two

Screening: Dark Blue World (Jan Svěrák, 2001)

12. Final class: Review