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Living history museums : undoing history through performance / Scott Magelssen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Magelssen, Scott, 1974-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Historic sites--Interpretive programs.
- Performing arts--Philosophy.
- Historical museums--Public relations.
- Historical reenactments.
- Performing arts--Technique.
- Public history.
- Historical museums.
- Public history--United States.
- Historical museums--United States.
- Historic sites--Interpretive programs--United States.
- Historic sites.
- Performing arts--United States--Technique.
- Performing arts.
- Historical reenactments--United States.
- Historical museums--Public relations--United States.
- Performing arts--United States--Philosophy.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (253 p.)
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2007.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Living History Museums: Undoing History Through Performance examines the performance techniques of Living History Museums, cultural institutions that merge historical exhibits with costumed live performance. Institutions such as Plimoth Plantation and Colonial Williamsburg are analyzed from a theatrical perspective, offering a new genealogy of living museum performance.
- Contents:
- The dilemmas of contemporary living museum historiography in theory and practice
- The progressive development narrative of living museum history
- Progressive histories : major works
- The progressive development narrative in practice
- (In)authentic revolutions : time, space, and living history museums
- Plimoth Plantation
- Colonial Williamsburg
- Old Sturbridge Village
- Storytelling vs. scientific discourse
- Toward a new genealogy of living museum performance
- A historiography of immanence
- Defining an episteme
- An emergence within a shifting field
- Capitalizing on the past- capitalizing on loss
- Social history and the trajectory of living museum performance
- The naturalistic ideal
- Living history as pleasure
- Performance as historiography at living history museums
- The historiography of performance
- The field
- Missed opportunities
- Alternatives to the naturalistic mode
- Post-tourists and living museum performance.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-197) and index.
- Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 979-82-16-41620-3
- 979-82-16-24145-4
- 1-283-69233-3
- 1-4616-6940-5
- OCLC:
- 1253439172
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