The patience of History examines how the relocating picture has thoroughly altered conventional modes of historic concept and illustration. Exploring more than a few movie and video texts, from The Ten Commandments to the Rodney King video, from the projected paintings of documentarian Errol Morris to Oliver Stone's JFK and Spielberg's Schindler's List, the quantity questions the perfect kinds of media for making the incoherence and fragmentation of latest heritage intelligible.
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What happens in the postmodernist docu-drama or historical metafiction is not so much the revers al of this relationship (such that real events are given the marks of imaginary ones while imaginary events are endowed with reality) as, rather, the placing in abeyance of the distinction between the real and the imaginary. Everything is presented as if it were of the same ontologicalorder, both real and imaginary-realistically imaginary or imaginarily real, with the result that the referential function of the images of events is etiolated.
Cannot it really be. (59) Now the same thing is true when the newspaper tells about any real thing, the real thing having happened it is completed and being completed can not be remembered because the thing in its essence being completed can not be remembered because the thing in its essence being completed there is no emotion in remembering it, it is a fact like any other and having been done it is for the purposes of memory a thing having no vitality. ;r ~p.. " really exciting then it is arelief then it is a thing that has emotion when that thing is a remembered thing.
L (1) '" '" is it unusual to dramatize historical eventsr rl' ~. C)Q (1) Is it realityl No. t's better. '"' -Tom Shales, 1989, on television documentaries Narrativizing historical events is as old as the Bible or the Wad and the Odyssey. In fact, Jerome Bruner argues in "The Narrative Construction of Reality" that narrative is one of several "cultural tool kits" that permits mastery and transfer of knowledges and skills from person to person, culture to culture.