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Screening History (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)

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Gore Vidal first presented Screening History as the William E. Massey, Sr., Lectures in the History of American Civilization at Harvard University. In it, he deals with several kinds of screening history: the historical adventure, epic, and biographical films he saw as a boy; his own experiences writing screenplays for such historical films as Ben Hur (1959), Caligula (1980), and three films about Billy the Kid; The March of Time, other newsreels, and television screening—and sometimes distorting and manipulating—history as it happens; and finally, in an...

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