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The film history not only challenges traditional History, but helps return us to a kind of ground zero, a sense that we can never really know the past, but can only continually play with, reconfigure and try to make meaning out of the traces it has left behind. Robert A. Rosenstone, History on Film/Film on History , p. 186.

Perhaps in a visual culture, the truth of an individual fact is less important than the overall truth of the metaphors we create to help us to understand the past. Robert A.Rosenstone, History on Film/Film on History , p. 148