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Simming : participatory performance and the making of meaning / Scott Magelssen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Magelssen, Scott, 1974- author.
- Series:
- Theater--text/theory/performance.
- Theater: theory/text/performance series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- History--Study and teaching--Simulation methods.
- History.
- Historical reenactments.
- Performance art.
- Historic sites--Educational aspects.
- Historic sites.
- Cultural property--Educational aspects.
- Cultural property.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (265 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- How simulated experiences--from living history to emergency preparedness drills--create meaning in performance.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part I. Simming the Past
- 1. "This Is a Drama. You Are Characters": Simming the Fugitive Slave in Conner Prairie's "Follow the North Star
- 2. Simming the (Virtual) Past
- 3. Playing Dead, or Living History with Corpses
- Part II. Bearing Witness to the Present
- 4. Learner-Driven Simming
- 5. Playing the Illegal Migrant: Tourist Simming in Mexico
- Part III. Preenactments, or Rehearsing the Future
- 6. Preempting Trauma
- 7. Senior Moments
- 8. Rehearsing the Warrior Ethos
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-242) and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780472072149
- 0472072145
- 9780472120307
- 0472120301
- OCLC:
- 881707862
- Publisher Number:
- 10.3998/mpub.4969005
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