ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the ways history is produced through sound and audio-visual media. David Thelen and Roy Rosenzweig explained in The Presence of the Past that movies and television broadcasts are far more successful than academic texts in reaching broad and non-specialist audiences. The Organization of American Historians curated significant radio programming through the summer of 2006, and the archived episodes continue to provide historians with podcast materials and the opportunity to study the medium. Mark Freeman's Guide to the Study of Documentary Film invites historians to concentrate on a few key issues like cinematography, sound, mise-en-scne, and editing. The Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television also offer very useful advice and case studies. To conclude, historians may use and take advantage of radio and audio-visual production to increase public access to the pa St. Sound and audio-visual media allow historians to vary the format of historical interpretation and make the past alive.
