• Dr Sebastian Joseph

Films convey the past as a different mode of expression and presentation. The past when translated as visual images in the moving picture, the narrative gets adapted to the massive entertainment structure of popular film. Written history that follows the dictum of positivist historiography stand apart fro this genre of historical film. Where the written text fails, feature films succeed in capturing the emotive heuristics of the past through making plots ands plots in the way of history telling. The mode of presentation in feature film and historical texts do follow different methods to recreate the past, but films engage in the recreation with signs and symbols different from textualised past. On the screen sometimes historical film take the central theme of the problem and without deviating from it, creates certain plots that did not happen in the past. This is done to capture the at-tention of the spectators. On a pedagogic level the use of films for propagating history seems highly promising in so far as the films make history an affectionate way of narrating the past.

Representation, Film, Fiction, Spectator

"Lights! Camera! Action! And the Birth of Historical Film", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.217-224, May 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905X28.pdf

"Lights! Camera! Action! And the Birth of Historical Film", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no. pp217-224, May 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905X28.pdf