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RE: To help the cultural sector, historians should make films

in #film7 years ago

I definitely don't have a solution for "de-siloing" the university, but I also want to pose another question. If we don't provide filmmaking training for public historians, why does the field term documentarians as part of our community? Do we actually see them as historians or associate them with ahistorical entertainment? Entertaining history ((or pop history as you term it)) expands and engages audience--the main tenets of public history work. Once again, the professional history world decides who is "in" based upon their usage of traditional mediums.

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And the unfortunate irony is that Temple University produces public historians in one school and documentary producers in another! So whose fault is the persistence of that disconnect?