Cinema e história – as funções do cinema como agente, fonte e representação da história

In the frame of a convergence between Cultural History and Political History, this article attempts to clarify and discuss the several possibilities of interaction and the possible relations between History and Cinema, particularly examining the Cinema as historical source, as way for the historical representation, as technology to support the historiographic work, and as an historical agent that interferes in the historical process. In the last part of the article there arepresented the kinds of films that keep the relationship with the historical representation