Lights, camera, history: portraying the past in film

Preface / Richard Francaviglia & Jerry Rodnitzky

Introduction: film and history: our media environment as a new frontier / Peter C. Rollins

In praise of the biopic / Robert Rosentone

History is what remains: cinema's challenge to ideas about the past / Geoff Pingree

Crusaders and Saracens: the persistence of orientalism in historically themed motion pictures about the Middle East / Richard Francaviglia

"The truth wrapped in a package of lies": Hollywood, history, and Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York / Daniel A. Nathan, Peter Berg, & Erin Klemyk

In defense of the filmmakers / Robert Brent Toplin.