“No one is better suited to undertake this project than Nelson, herself both a filmmaker and a scholar. She builds on the insights of a broad range of scholars in the field to produce what no one has yet achieved: a rigorous, comprehensive, and yet nuanced account of how moving histories work, providing a powerful methodology for future generations of film scholars.”

— ALISON LANDSBERG, author of Engaging the Past: Mass Culture and the Production of Historical Knowledge

“This is a wide-ranging and highly original piece of scholarship, which brims with fresh insights into the historical film. Nelson’s analysis of her subject is clear and compelling; she builds judiciously on existing scholarship in the field and creates a productive and adaptable toolkit for scholarship yet to come.”

— JONATHAN STUBBS, author of Hollywood and the Invention of England

“Lucid and engaging, Making History Move directly confronts the theoretical and pragmatic questions that have repeatedly surfaced in studies of history and film. Nelson illuminates five principles that underpin the representation of the historical past in moving images. Filled with vivid ideas and marked by rigorous analysis, the book provides a blueprint for a genre that has increasingly shaped cultural understanding of the past.”

— ROBERT BURGOYNE, author of  The New American War Film

“This is the book Hayden White never wrote, a readable, stunning work that shows in detail how the term historiophoty, a word he coined in 1988, is central to understanding the growing field of film and history.”

— ROBERT A. ROSENSTONE, author of History on Film/Film on History