Since its creation and until the last decades, films have been rejected by historians as a valid source of study of the past. The apparent "transparency" and "objectivity" that the written word illusorily promises has provoked that conservative historiography fears the audiovisual image due to its lyricism and subjectivity. Nonetheless, since the 60's, important historians, like Marc Ferro, began to question the reason why a text should be more accurate than the film camera, validating that way cinema as an instrument to study and understand social and cultural history.
Erlij, E. (2014). Writing the Past with the Lens of a Film Camera: Cinema as an Historical Document. Comunicación Y Medios, (29), Pág. 76 – 91. https://doi.org/10.5354/rcm.v0i29.30153
