Robert A. Rosenstone is an American author, historian, and Professor Emeritus of history at the California Institute of Technology. He studies the relationship between history and the visual media. He has written two books on the topic, Visions of the Past: the Challenge of Film to Our Idea of History (Harvard, 1995), and History on Film / Film on History (Pearson, 2006, 2nd edition 2012), and has edited a collection of essays, Revisioning History: Film and the Construction of a New Past (Princeton, 1995). His most recent addition to the field, co-edited with Constantin Parvulescu, is A Blackwell Companion to Historical Film (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)