{"title":"Natalie Zemon Davis","description":"Natalie Zemon Davis is Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley.","products":[{"product_id":"slaves-on-screen-film-and-historical-vision-paperback","title":"Slaves on Screen: Film and Historical Vision - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe written word and what the eye can see are brought together in this fascinating foray into the depiction of resistance to slavery through the modern medium of film. Natalie Zemon Davis, whose book \u003ci\u003eThe Return of Martin Guerre\u003c\/i\u003e was written while she served as consultant to the French film of the same name, now tackles the large issue of how the moving picture industry has portrayed slaves in five major motion pictures spanning four generations. The potential of film to narrate the historical past in an effective and meaningful way, with insistence on loyalty to the evidence, is assessed in five films: \u003ci\u003eSpartacus\u003c\/i\u003e (1960), \u003ci\u003eBurn!\u003c\/i\u003e (1969), \u003ci\u003eThe Last Supper\u003c\/i\u003e (1976), \u003ci\u003eAmistad\u003c\/i\u003e (1997), and \u003ci\u003eBeloved\u003c\/i\u003e (1998). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDavis shows how shifts in the viewpoints of screenwriters and directors parallel those of historians. \u003ci\u003eSpartacus\u003c\/i\u003e is polarized social history; the films on the Caribbean bring ceremony and carnival to bear on the origins of revolt; \u003ci\u003eAmistad\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBeloved\u003c\/i\u003e draw upon the traumatic wounds in the memory of slavery and the resources for healing them. In each case Davis considers the intentions of filmmakers and evaluates the film and its techniques through historical evidence and interpretation. Family continuity emerges as a major element in the struggle against slavery. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eSlaves on Screen\u003c\/i\u003e is based in part on interviews with the Nobel prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eBeloved\u003c\/i\u003e, Toni Morrison, and with Manuel Moreno Fraginals, the historical consultant for \u003ci\u003eThe Last Supper\u003c\/i\u003e. Davis brings a new approach to historical film as a source of \"thought experiments\" about the past. While the five motion pictures are sometimes cinematic triumphs, with sound history inspiring the imagination, Davis is critical of fictive scenes and characters when they mislead viewers in important ways. Good history makes good films.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE written word and what the eye can see are brought together in this fascinating foray into the depiction of resistance to slavery through the modern medium of film. Davis, whose book The Return of Martin Guerre was written while she served as consultant to the French film of the same name, now tackles the large issue of how the moving picture industry has portrayed slaves in five major motion pictures spanning four generations. The potential of film to narrate the historical past in an effective and meaningful way, with insistence on loyalty to the evidence, is assessed in five films: Spartacus (1960), Burn! (1969), The Last Supper (1976), Amistad (1997), and Beloved (1998).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavis shows how shifts in the viewpoints of screenwriters and directors parallel those of historians. Spartacus is polarized social history; the films on the Caribbean bring ceremony and carnival to bear on the origins of revolt; Amistad and Beloved draw upon the traumatic wounds in the memory of slavery and the resources for healing them. In each case Davis considers the intentions of filmmakers and evaluates the film and its techniques through historical evidence and interpretation. Family continuity emerges as a major element in the struggle against slavery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSlaves on Screen is based in part on interviews with the Nobel prize -- winning author of Beloved, Toni Morrison, and with Manuel Moreno Fraginals, the historical consultant for The Last Supper. Davis brings a new approach to historical film as a source of \"thought experiments\" about the past. While the five motion pictures are sometimes cinematic triumphs, with sound history inspiring the imagination, Davis is critical of fictive scenes and characterswhen they mislead viewers in important ways. Good history makes good films.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51366080741599,"sku":"9780674008212","price":47.52,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/322hlIZ4cS9780674008212.webp?v=1789080807"},{"product_id":"society-and-culture-in-early-modern-france-eight-essays-by-natalie-zemon-davis-paperback","title":"Society and Culture in Early Modern France: Eight Essays by Natalie Zemon Davis - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese essays, three of them previously unpublished, explore the competing claims of innovation and tradition among the lower orders in sixteenth-century France. The result is a wide-ranging view of the lives and values of men and women (artisans, tradesmen, the poor) who, because they left little or nothing in writing, have hitherto had little attention from scholars.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe first three essays consider the social, vocational, and sexual context of the Protestant Reformation, its consequences for urban women, and the new attitudes toward poverty shared by Catholic humanists and Protestants alike in sixteenth-century Lyon.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe next three essays describe the links between festive play and youth groups, domestic dissent, and political criticism in town and country, the festive reversal of sex roles and political order, and the ritualistic and dramatic structure of religious riots.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe final two essays discuss the impact of printing on the quasi-literate, and the collecting of common proverbs and medical folklore by learned students of the \"people\" during the Ancien Régime. The book includes eight pages of illustrations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis classic collection of essays has already established itself as a rich source of material for students of sixteenth and seventeenth-century France. Natalie Davis focuses on the lower social orders - peasants, artisans, the poor generally - and in a series of brilliantly penetrating cast-studies throws fresh light on some of the great issues of social change: the impact of printing, the rise of protestantism, the role of women, power-relations between groups and classes'.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51366136479967,"sku":"9780804709729","price":44.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/INGdp5dhgn9780804709729.webp?v=1789084360"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/natalie-zemon-davis.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}