The Relationship between Academic History and Audio-Visual History in Lithuania: A Closing of the Gap? by Rūta Šermukšnytė

“…By trying to consider history emotionally and subjectively, the authors of Lithuanian documentary films and programs in the period of national revival and the first years of independence (till 1993) usually failed to provide a new, individual take on the history of Lithuania; rather, they reproduced interpretations of Lithuanian history produced in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The enhanced role of historians in the creation of Lithuanian documentary film and television is connected with changes in self-conception among audio-visual communications specialists (authors and their "supervising" critics) as well as among historians; these changes were visible by 1993. …”
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