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This course is a brief sample of the topic of the use of images, films and their use in historical interpretation in the XNUMXth century.
It is provided primarily for those who have a general interest in history that relies on photojournalism as primary evidence and movies based on historical events.
Once you have completed this course, we hope you will be equipped to: Appreciate the importance of photographs as historical evidence in the XNUMXth century.
Understand the limitations of the medium and how we can attribute meaning to these individual 'moment in time' records given the circumstances in which a particular image was taken.
Understand how people and institutions have tried to manipulate images for their own ends, through alteration and/or censorship, and what that meant for contemporary as well as later historical interpretation.
Put individual images in a larger context and, in particular, with reference to history written or portrayed beyond the academy: public history.
Please note that some of the content in this course refers to images and depictions of war.
Real wars and real images.
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