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Performing public history : case studies in historical storytelling / David Dean.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dean, D. M. (David M.), Author.
- Series:
- Global perspectives on public history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public history--Case studies.
- Public history.
- Historiography--Methodology--Case studies.
- Historiography.
- Physical Description:
- x, 188 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2025.
- Summary:
- "Performing Public History explores history-telling as a performance across a wide range of media including theatre and film, historical reenactments and living history performances, operas, and video games. Taking historians as storytellers, this book illustrates how the choices they make shape historical meaning. While historians may strive to be objective when they research and write the past, they inevitably draw on their imagination, emotions, and creativity, aligning them with others who make history in public. The book explores issues such as the nature of archives, realism, fact and fiction, accuracy and authenticity, and actants and audiences. It draws on case studies from all parts of the world, offering global perspectives that invite a rethinking about what history is, and how and why we do it. Sharing work by graduate students, the author also offers an appendix of classroom exercises that instructors will find valuable. Written accessibly for students, this volume offers a succinct account of the discipline of history, the field of public history, and how performance is a useful concept for thinking about history-work"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Prologue : performing history publicly
- History, public history, performance
- Archival truths
- Performing the real
- Feeling the past
- Authentic performances
- "The cat ate my bannock" and other stories
- Epilogue : performing public history
- Appendix: Classroom exercises.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version Dean, D. M. (David M.) Performing public history
- ISBN:
- 9781032012889
- 1032012889
- 9780367775360
- 0367775360
- OCLC:
- 1466058849
- Publisher Number:
- 90101563846
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