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Exhibiting Patriotism - Teresa Bergman

Exhibiting Patriotism

Creating and Contesting Interpretations of American Historic Sites

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Buch | Softcover
254 Seiten
2013
Left Coast Press Inc (Verlag)
9781598745979 (ISBN)
CHF 74,95 inkl. MwSt
Examining interpretive materials, exhibits, and films at major US historic sites where controversy has erupted over historical interpretation, Exhibiting Patriotism shows how historical narratives change over time, shaped by the dynamic relationship between these museums, their visitors, and the public.
American nationalism, patriotism and citizenship are proudly on display at historical sites across America—but they are also contested and reshaped by visitors and their engagement with those places. In Exhibiting Patriotism, Bergman analyzes exhibits, interpretive materials, and orientation films at major US sites, from Mt. Rushmore and to the USS Arizona Memorial, where controversy has erupted over the stories they tell about the past. She shows how historic narratives are the result of dynamic relationships between institutions and the public, and how these relationships are changing in an era when museums are becoming more visitor-centered, seeing visitors as partners in historical interpretation. Drawing on film theory, memory studies, visual communication, and visitor studies, Bergman offers an important analysis for scholars and professionals in American studies, museum studies, public history, and communication and media studies.

Teresa Bergman is an Associate Professor in the Communication Department at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California, and a former documentary filmmaker. She earned her B.A. at the University of California, Berkeley, her M.A. at San Francisco State University and her Ph.D. at the University of California, Davis. She teaches courses in documentary film criticism and production as well as critical theory and qualitative research methods. Her research focus is on the intersection of location, memory and representation at sites of public memory.

Introduction; Chapter 1 Submerged Patriotism: Evolving Representation at the U.S.S. Arizona Memorial Visitor Center; Chapter 2 Getting the Chinese on Board at the California State Railroad Museum; Chapter 3 The Day the Plaster Fell: Museological Change Comes to the Alamo; Chapter 4 Sex and Gender in the Lincoln Memorial: The Politics of Interpreting Lincoln's Legacy; Chapter 5 Patriotism Carved in Stone: Mt. Rushmore's Evolution as National Symbol; Chapter 7 Conclusion;

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