The Persistence of History
examines how the moving image has completely altered traditional modes of historical thought and representation. Exploring a range of film and video texts, from
The Ten Commandments
to the Rodney King video, from the projected work of documentarian Errol Morris to Oliver Stone's
JFK
and Spielberg's
Schindler's List
, the volume questions the appropriate forms of media for making the incoherence and fragmentation of contemporary history intelligible.