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...documentary is inspired by Dead Certainty, a book by noted historian and former Harvard professor Simon Schama, whose section “Death of a Harvard Man” explores the case from the perspectives of multiple characters...
...Schama, who serves as the film’s “presenter,” concocts imaginary scenarios that may or may not have happened in history. These scenes are filmed in black and white, which Stange said lowered production costs and aesthetically reflected the ambivalence surrounding the case...
Looking back at her Harvard experience, Davidson, who was a literature concentrator in Adams House, points to a seminar by former Mellon Professor of Social Sciences Simon Schama as the course that turned writing around...
Lately, Britain's globe-trotting, crowd-pleasing telechefs have been losing air time (and book sales) to a new breed of celebrity: the telehistorian, serving up entertaining, easy-to-digest lessons about the past. In rapid succession, Simon Schama's blockbuster A History of Britain has been followed by Adam Hart-Davis' What the Tudors and Stuarts Did for Us and David Starkey's Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII Now, with the timing of a busy sous chef, Niall Ferguson, Professor of Political and Financial History at Oxford University, launches Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World (Allen...
...Schama, narrating in a scruffy leather jacket, is a popularizer in the best sense. He can be snarky, poetic or both, as when he describes Queen Victoria's funeral procession, the monarch dressed in white: "There was a touch of Miss Havisham about this--the 80-year-old, flower-bedecked virgin bride." He's an enlightening, entertaining guide to a history that isn't ours, except that it really is. --By James Poniewozik