Living History Museums
Scarecrow Press (Verlag)
978-0-8108-5865-7 (ISBN)
Living history museums are cultural institutions that merge historical exhibits with live costumed performance. While unique and vitally important, they often compromise historical accuracy and authenticity for the sake of tourism and entertainment value. Many also pursue methods of performance and historiography that are becoming increasingly outdated. Living History Museums: Undoing History Through Performance examines the performance practices used by institutions such as Plimoth Plantation and Colonial Williamsburg, and offers a new genealogy of living history museum performance in the U.S. and Europe.
Currently, existing scholarship on living history museums addresses the subject from a museum-studies or anthropology perspective. Author Scott Magelssen, however, approaches the material from a background in theatre history and theory, analyzing living history museums using postmodern methodology. Considering performance as a method for the study of history and exploring emergent non-traditional theatrical practices, the book offers suggestions for performance in an increasingly postmodern landscape. Concluding with an international listing of living history institutions and a complete list of sources, Living History Museums is a valuable resource for students and teachers of theatre and performance studies, cultural studies, folklore, popular culture, American studies, and museum studies.
Scott Magelssen is associate professor of Theatre at Bowling Green State University. He has published articles on living history museums in many theatre journals, including Theatre History Studies and The Drama Review. The author won the 2005 Gerald Kahan Award for the Best Essay in Theatre Studies by a Younger Scholar for his article "Performance Practices of [Living] Open-Air Museums (And a New Look at 'Skansen' in American Living Museum Discourse)," published in Theatre History Studies in 2004.
Part 1 Acknowledgments
Part 2 Introduction
Part 3 Chapter 1 The Dilemmas of Contemporary Living History Museum Historiography in Theory and Practice
Chapter 4 The Progressive Development Narrative of Living History Museum History
Chapter 5 Progressive Histories: Major Works
Chapter 6 The Progressive Development Narrative in Practice
Chapter 7 (In)authentic Revolutions: Time, Space, and Living History Museums
Chapter 8 Plimoth Plantation
Chapter 9 Colonial WIlliamsburg
Chapter 10 Old Sturbridge Village
Chapter 11 Storytelling vs. Scientific Discourse
Part 12 Chapter 2 Toward a New Genealogy of Living History Museum Performance
Chapter 13 A Historiography of Immanence
Chapter 14 Defining the Episteme
Chapter 15 An Emergence within a Shifting Field
Chapter 16 Capitalizing on the Past—Capitalizing on Loss
Chapter 17 Social History and the Trajectory of Living Museum Performance
Chapter 18 The Naturalistic Ideal
Chapter 19 Living History as Pleasure
Part 20 Chapter 3 Performace as Historiography at Living History Museums
Chapter 21 The Historiography of Performance
Chapter 22 The Field
Chapter 23 Missed Opportunities
Chapter 24 Alternatives to the Naturalistic Mode
Chapter 25 Post-Tourists and Living History Performace
Part 26 Conclusion
Part 27 Appendix: Selected Living History Programming Sites
Part 28 Bibliography
Part 29 Index
Part 30 About the Author
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.4.2007 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 232 mm |
| Gewicht | 399 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8108-5865-7 / 0810858657 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8108-5865-7 / 9780810858657 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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