Performing Public History: Case Studies in Historical Storytelling (1) (Global Perspectives on Public History)

By: David Dean

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Synopsis: Performing Public History explores history-telling as a performance across a wide range of media, including theatre and film, historical re-enactments 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 200 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781040337974
Related ISBNs:: 9781040337943, 9780367775360, 9781003178026, 9781032012889
Publisher:: Taylor & Francis
Date of Addition:: 04/09/25
Copyrighted By:: David Dean. The right of David Dean to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Nonfiction, Education, Social Studies, Language Arts
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.