Eric Hobsbawm: The Consolations of History
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- Опубліковано 7 кві 2021
- In this documentary, Anthony Wilks traces the connections between the events of Eric Hobsbawm’s life and the history he told, from his teenage years in Germany and his communist membership, to the jazz clubs of 1950s Soho and the makings of New Labour, taking in Italian bandits, Peruvian peasant movements and the development of nationalism in the modern world, with help from the assiduous observations of MI5. The film features contributions from Frances Stonor Saunders, Richard J. Evans, John Foot, Stefan Collini, Marlene Hobsbawm and Donald Sassoon, as well as Hobsbawm himself in extensive archive footage.
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Read more in the LRB:
Hobsbawm on Weimar Germany: lrb.me/hobsbawmweimaryt
Hobsbawm on his days as a jazz critic: lrb.me/hobsbawmjazzyt
Hobsbawm on Hungary in 1956: lrb.me/hobsbawmhungaryt
Frances Stonor Saunders on Hobsbawm's MI5 files: lrb.me/hobsbawmmi5filesyt
Perry Anderson on 'The Age of' series: lrb.me/andersonhobsbawmyt
Audio in the film courtesy of the Hay Festival. Find more here: www.hayfestival.com/hayplayer/
Turkish subtitles kindly provided by Dr. Ugur Pece of Lehigh University.
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I knew Eric... He had perspective... He asked great questions... He knew vast things... and this was well worth watching. My book on The British Marxist Historians (1984, 1995) is being issued anew this coming fall 2021 with his 1995 Foreword included.
This was fantastic. Thank you for making it available to watch for free.
Please remove the jazz...
Hobsbawm was a hypocrite. He could preach it, but not live it.
the modern communist parties are so influenced by stalinism
What a treat. Pity that the vulgarity of daily political discourses has been used to negatively frame his work. His contribution in understanding where we come from and who we are should be universally celebrated. Thanks for uploading this.
Misplaced loyalty in staying with those Stalinists in the CPGB. Those who left did the right thing so I didn't like hearing him criticising ' those leavers.'
A rare documentary, artfully constructed by the digital producer for the London Review of Books Andrew Wilks, screamingly relevant themes, engagingly paced, accompanied by music with a purpose. At the center is a life of a historian, a multilinguist with big ideas and a torch fuelled by personal heritage and experience, pointed at phenomena, movements that propel change since modern history began.
He was an amazing scholar, a walking encyclopedia and the sweetest man ever.
He never seemed to write much if at all about who funded these movements. I'm unable to find in any of his work an explanation of who funded Lenin.
حقيقة هذا الرجل خلاني احب التاريخ و الاهم احترام التاريخ و قيمة التوثيق و كذلك الموضوعيه بالنظر للاحداث
The first time I readed Hobsbawn was three years ago in the College, at the history class.
A remarkable portrait of the man. Calm, balanced, intriguing. Thank you.
Thank you for making this available for free viewing
This is a fascinating and beautifully achieved biography of Eric Hobsbawm.
Thank you so much for releasing this documentary. Regards from argentina!
Phenomenal Film. Thanks for making it public!
What a life. I have read his books and learned to "see" history in the way in which he presented it. It helps that his writing is clear yet profound, and built upon by a superb scholarly mind keen to pass on what he had learned. I came to like Eric Hobsbawm through his writing and his books and i'm sure if i met him i would have liked him as a person. Thanks for posting this documentary, for those who know only a small amount about EH its a perfect personal and professional encapsulated biography.
A truly fantastic documentary: it outlines respectfully the intellectual and social biography of one of the most brillant historians of the twentieth century. His ability to intertwine the political, economic, social and cultural dimensions of human life and society are not matched by many others. He was consequent and open about his political viewpoints and he did never hide him self behind a false stance of a so called "impartiality" or "a non bias" that supposedly a great number of historians take.
Thanks for posting this! Where else could a Yank see one of his favorite authors in the flesh? American TV? Not, as you say, bloody likely.