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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Historical Accuracy"”.
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The reel truth: the importance of historical accuracy in film
… goal of this project is to build a case that historical accuracy in film is an especially important criteria when teaching using film, and that educators and their students should be able to discuss any historical inaccuracies in a way that does not diminish enjoyment of the film. Aside from …
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Historical Accuracy and the IRA Over 70 Years of Cinema
… The goal is to demonstrate the necessity for historical accuracy in movies produced for public entertainment, which often neglect historical facts and circumstances in portraying an organization as controversial and complex as the IRA. This has been done by examining five movies produced for …
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All that glitters is not gold: authenticity and historical accuracy in representations of Mapungubwe
… were made of both those considered historical and contemporary. These were discussed and unpacked in accordance with the broader research question examining if their accuracy matters. In this unpacking archaeological theory is discussed, as well as the nationalist ideologies and …
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Historický film jako informační zdroj a jeho komparace s knižními tituly
… consider the characteristics of the film and its historical significance from the perspective of the viewer. As the subject of examination, on which the thoughts and findings will be demonstrated, is chosen the important English King- Henry VIII., who has been depicted in many movies and about …
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Laurent Binet's HHhH: Historiographic Metafiction in Contemporary French Literature about World War II
… that Binet's text successfully maintains both historical truth and fictional embellishment, whereas Littell's and Haenel's texts are <em>too</em> fictionalized, and therefore fail to maintain enough historical accuracy to be considered historically true.</p>
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Surapati : portraits of a hero in Javanese Babad literature
… N.J. Krom, faced with the problem of judging the historical accuracy of works belonging to the Babad genre in their accounts of the earlier period which was his subject, concluded that their historicity could only be assessed 'als men van andere zijde reeds weet, wat er geschied is'. He concluded …
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Surapati : portraits of a hero in Javanese Babad literature
… N.J. Krom, faced with the problem of judging the historical accuracy of works belonging to the Babad genre in their accounts of the earlier period which was his subject, concluded that their historicity could only be assessed 'als men van andere zijde reeds weet, wat er geschied is'. He concluded …
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Goodsprings: A historical archaeological review of the Yellow Pine Mining District
… of a comparative analysis of the written historical record and surface archaeological features relevant to three mines of the Yellow Pine Mining District. The intent is to discover if field observations do indeed confirm historical documentation. Using archival sources combined with an …
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Shadow of Death: A Fantasy Theme Analysis of the Floyd Collins Tragedy
… forms. Although the countless genres (and their historical accuracy) vary, they are basically retellings of the same story—a story filled with drama, suspense, and heroics. Because of these characteristics, the rhetoric of the Floyd Collins ordeal lent itself to examination using Bormann's (1972) …
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Staging Hitler myths
… for offering a personalized depiction of the historical character of Adolf Hitler. A crucial question that came up in the reviews was whether the depiction of Hitler in these films has been "adequate". To me all these depictions circle around the mythology that has been developed around …
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A Story Well Told: rich Narrative Engages California Fifth Grade Students in American History
… text that is informative enough to have historical accuracy. The publisher promotes a program that features a standard in every lesson, and promises no extraneous content. An examination is conducted as to how this program approaches the required California History/Social Studies elements …
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A Story Well Told: Rich Narrative Engages California Fifth Grade Students in American History
… text that is informative enough to have historical accuracy. The publisher promotes a program that features a standard in every lesson, and promises no extraneous content. An examination is conducted as to how this program approaches the required California History/Social Studies elements …
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Clodia, Fulvia, Livia, Messalina : what can we really learn about the elite women of Rome?
… to determine their role and status with any true historical accuracy. In doing so it considers the importance of the nature of those sources: some are blatant propaganda, others conform to their literary genre and others reflect political bias.
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Hollywood and History : Spike Lee's "Malcolm X"
The debate between historical fiction and historical fact has long been an issue of film and television theorists in relationship to historical representations in film and television productions. Recently, films such as Oliver Stone's "JFK" have raised questions on the concept of "truthtelling" in …
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Finding Identity Through Survival: The Impact of the Hurricanes in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God and Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones
… Gulf Coast. Hurston and Ward demonstrate with historical accuracy how powerful these two similar hurricanes were on the low-lying communities that were ravaged in their path. The backdrop <em>Their Eyes Were Watching God </em>paints a clear picture of racist practices common in America in the …
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Reframing crusading discourses in seventeenth-century English drama
… in early modern cultural discourses resisted historical accuracy: Turks are represented as violent, lustful, barbaric, and despotic despite the existence of numerous seventeenth-century Anglo-Ottoman correspondence documents, in which Turks are often associated with wealth, military strength, …
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a people blessed, a land teeming
… to explore necessary considerations when writing historical persona poetry and when working with form. It addresses the use of the poetic tools of lineation, white space, epigraphs, and the unique visual/textual intersection of poetry in constructing a cohesive collection. Inspiration for a …
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The digital classification of “unknown maker(s)” of cultural objects: A case study of Iziko South African National Gallery
… associated challenges regarding the veracity of historical accounts. With the transition to digitisation, and the adoption of digital curatorship for knowledge production in museum environments, it has become necessary to examine the historical accuracy, reliability and trustworthiness of the …
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Leaving in the Past: The Role History Plays in Video Games
… turning towards the recreation of real-world and historical events. This drive towards realism and accuracy also brings an increase in the amount of historical research done in order to insure the accuracy of a game's content. This growing interest in historical accuracy resulted in thorough …
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Landscape of the Past: The 1815 Log House at Western Kentucky University
… logs, and stone chimneys are some of the historical architectural features that can be viewed. It was donated to the Kentucky Library & Museum at WKU in 1980, and now serves as an on-site exhibit of early frontier life in Kentucky. The new landscape design for the log house includes a …
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