Provocative excerpts from primary and secondary sources (some with audio glosses). Read the rationale behind these sound bites for more information.
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221) The artificial but real experiences afforded by the cinema "might actually install in individuals 'symptoms' through which they didn't actually live, but to which they subsequently have a kind of experiential relationship." (Robert Burgoyne, "Prosthetic") [SoundBite #221]
222) Which picture audiences choose to see is where some interesting history begins. The Hunger Games has grossed approximately 400 million dollars and counting. Is it a work of great significance other than boffo box office? Probably not, but apparently it’s very entertaining and a big hit with the American public, and I imagine it will achieve a commercial success similar to Avatar. Now if we look at the Roger and Me, Dances with Wolves, Apocalypse Now and Apollo 13’s of the world, the picture’s significance takes on a new meaning. The masses flocked (albeit not as generously) to these films and might have been left with a new perspective on some old history. Kind of like what people get from reading a book, only at warp speed. (Lynn Farley, Lehigh University) [SoundBite #2956]
223) That the historian must use his imagination is a commonplace: to quote Macaulay's Essay on History, "a perfect historian must possess an imagination sufficiently powerful to make his narrative affecting and picturesque"; but this is to underestimate the part played by the historical imagination, that "blind but indispensable faculty" without which, as Kant has shown, we could never perceive the world around us, is indispensable in the same way to history: it is this which, operating not capriciously as fancy but in its a priori form, does the entire work of historical construction. (R. G. Collingwood 241) [SoundBite #223]
224) By the latter part of the twentieth century public memory remains a product of elite manipulation, symbolic interaction, and contested discourse. (John Bodnar 20) [SoundBite #224]
225) Patriotism should be based on the positive things that our country has done, and I believe that there must be some hiding somewhere. Instead of being lied to, I want our children, and our childrens' children to be made aware of the struggles, the conquests, and the downfalls that our country has been through. I (optimistically) believe that there is a way to keep patriotism alive without changing the past. (Jennifer Lackner, Lehigh University) [SoundBite #229]
226) American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. (James Baldwin 11) [SoundBite #226]
227) Film, with its unique powers of representation, now struggles for a place within a cultural tradition which has long privileged the written word. It's challenge is great, for it may be that to acknowledge the authenticity of the visual is to accept a new relationship to the word itself. (Robert Rosenstone 43-44) [SoundBite #227]
228) This power is what textbooks omit: they give no inkling that ideas matter. (James W. Loewen 179) [SoundBite #1280]
229) "The masses" are flocking to the movies, not the libraries. (Teresa Salvatore) [SoundBite #1226]
230) A man without a nation defies the recognized categories and provokes revulsion. . . . A man must have a nationality as he must have a nose and two ears. (Ernest Gellner 6) [SoundBite #230]
