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Running head: HOW ART, THEATER AND DISNEY COMMUNICATE HISTORY 1

How Art, Theater and Disney Communicate History

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HOW ART, THEATER AND DISNEY COMMUNICATE HISTORY 2

WEEK FOUR: HOW ART, THEATER AND DISNEY COMMUNICATE

HISTORY

These media are responsible for how history is carried to present and future generations.

Although the literature is considered the most accurate way that history is communicated, these

categories fall under literature. Since they are responsible for enlightening the society of core

values and norms through historical events that are distilled of information. Theater and Disney

communicate that legends are remains than history, literature is enforced over history and

superstition over science. This implies that movies create memories of history and what we can

form of it, history is the past but memory is now and thus, memory allows history to remain as

close as we would hope. This is the role of arts and theaters or movies.

These mediums are a way to remember the past, thus it might not be accurate but the way

the story is told in movies or portrayed in arts is as important as how one will decipher the

information. Since most of the events in Disney are fiction, the past event is remembered and

reconstructed with slight distillation and alteration of information. Reconstruction of historical

events depends on the memory of the writer, artists, and movie creators. The information may be

accurate but the alteration is meant to suit the contemporary market and audience. Thus history in

movies gets short-changed on two factors, the contemporary audience, or market, and the memory

of the creator.

For instance, the event of Washington Crossing the Delaware in which the artist depicts

General Washington’s attack on the Hessians. The history in this picture is a little bit altered which

can be attributed to the memory of the artist or any other factors. The boats were heading in the

wrong directions, and the ice floats are impossibly large, and at the back of the image, we can see

horses on the boats which are historical inaccuracy. (Dean, 2009) explains that historical events

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Running head: HOW ART, THEATER AND DISNEY COMMUNICATE HISTORY How Art, Theater and Disney Communicate History Institutional Affiliation Student Name Instructor Course Date 1 HOW ART, THEATER AND DISNEY COMMUNICATE HISTORY 2 WEEK FOUR: HOW ART, THEATER AND DISNEY COMMUNICATE HISTORY These media are responsible for how history is carried to present and future generations. Although the literature is considered the most accurate way that history is communicated, these categories fall under literature. Since they are responsible for enlightening the society of core values and norms through historical events that are distilled of information. Theater and Disney communicate that legends are remains than history, literature is enforced over history and superstition over science. This implies that movies create memories of history and what we can form of it, history is the past but memory is now and thus, memory allows history to remain as close as we would hope. This is the role of arts and theaters or movies. These mediums are a way to remember the past, thus it might not be accurate but the way the story is told in movies or portrayed in arts is as important as how one will deciph ...
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