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2011 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Introduction: Is the Past a Foreign Country?
verfasst von : Ewa Mazierska
Erschienen in: European Cinema and Intertextuality
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
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Cinema is part of history, namely a discourse on the past. But what is the past? ‘The past is a foreign country’, is an answer which immediately appears in my head. These words, opening L. P. Hartley’s novel, The Go-Between (Hartley 1953: 9), were repeated or paraphrased by so many historians (see, for example, Lowenthal 1985, 2007; Judt 1992; Hobsbawm 1997; Fuchs and Cosgrove 2006) that they became a cliché. And yet, they require scrutiny, because they are ambiguous and therefore their meanings divide contemporary historians. Explaining their meanings will also allow me to locate my book within a number of debates concerning the status of history and its relation to cinema.