Film as Historical Narrative

Hannu Salmi

Autors/ores

Hannu Salmi University of Turku

Resum

The Polish cinematographer Boleslaw Matuszewski who worked with the famous film pioneers, the Lumiere brothers during the 1890s published a little booklet Une nouvelle source de l’histoire (The New Source of History) in the year 1898. In this text, he suggested that film could offer not only a source for historical research but a suitable medium for historical narration as well.

Biografia de l'autor/a

Hannu Salmi, University of Turku

HANNU SALMI, Ph. D., is a docent in general history at the University of Turku and a researcher at the Academy of Finland. He has written on German cultural history, on the history of Finnish cinema as well as on the methodology of film history.