Enacting history edited by Scott Magelssen and Rhona Justice-Malloy

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Magelssen, Scott, 1974-

Justice-Malloy, Rhona.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historical reenactments.

Physical Description:

vi, 230 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2011.

Contents:

Introduction / Scott Magelssen

Present enacting past : the functions of battle reenacting in historical representation / Leigh Clemons

"This is the place" : performance and the production of space in Mormon cultural memory / Lindsay Adamson Livingston

Men with their muskets and me in my bare feet : performing history and policing gender at historic Fort Snelling Living History Museum / Amy M. Tyson

History, archive, memory, and performance : the Lewis and Clark bicentennial play as cultural commemoration / Richard L. Poole

Defining museum theater at Conner Prairie / Aili McGill

Performing history as memorialization : thinking with

And Jesus moonwalks the Mississippi and Brown University's Slavery and Justice Committee / Patricia Ybarra

Is that real? an exploration of what is real in a performance based on history / Catherine Hughes

Dinner: impossible

"medieval mayhem" at the Maryland Renaissance Festival / Kimberly Tony Korol-Evans

Tourist performance in the twenty-first century / Scott Magelssen

Ping Chong & Company's Undesirable elements/secret histories in Oxford, Mississippi / Rhona Justice-Malloy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780817356545 (pbk. : alk. paper)

0817356541 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

693207650