| Description |
xvi, 316 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: pt. I The popular historian -- 1.The public historian, the historian in public -- The ̀new gardening' and the publicity historian -- History in public life: Gove and Putin -- History, historians, historiography and celebrity: Great Britons -- David Irving libel trial and aftermath -- 2.Popular history in print -- Narrative history -- Political diaries and witness accounts -- Autobiography, personal memoir and biography -- Historical biography -- The past for children: school and Horrible Histories -- The status of the popular history author -- Popular circulation: magazines -- Reception and consumption: reading groups and reader reviews -- 3.The historian in popular culture -- ̀That's you, that is': historian as child, adventurer and hero -- Historian detectives -- pt. II Digital history -- 4.Genealogy and family history -- ̀Amateur' history, politicised identity -- Doing family history -- DNA genealogy: science in history -- 5.History online -- |
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Contents note continued: Abundance, presumption and enfranchisement -- Twitter and social media for historians -- Crowdsourcing, hacking and education: transcription, MOOCS, apps -- pt. III Performing and playing history -- 6.Historical re-enactment -- Seeing and believing: re-enactment culture -- Combat re-enactment -- Re-enactment, place and CGI in historical documentary -- Living theatre: museums, live and living history -- Getting medievalish: anachronism, faires and banquets -- 7.Performing pastness, recycling culture and cultural re-enactment -- Historical stage drama -- Music, performance and remakes -- Re-enactment and performance art -- The ̀extreme historian': reinhabiting the past -- Historical pornography -- 8.History games -- First-person shoot 'em up history -- Civilization and disc contents: strategy games -- Wargames and scale models -- The prizewinning past -- pt. IV History on television -- 9.Contemporary historical documentary -- |
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Contents note continued: Documentary as form: self-consciousness and diversion -- ̀Neither wholly fictional nor wholly factual'; history on television -- ̀Contemporary, lively and egalitarian': Schama, Starkey, MacCulloch, Hughes -- 10.Reality, professional reality, celebrity and object history -- Empathy, authenticity and identity -- Reality history -- Immersive historical identity and celebrity revelation: Who Do You Think You Are? -- Antiques on television -- Selling historically -- 11.History on television around the world -- pt. V The ̀historical' as cultural genre -- 12.Historical television: adaptation, original drama, comedy and time travel -- Adaptation and costume drama -- Developing the adaptation: sex and violence -- Original costume drama -- Comedy history -- Time travel and dreaming the past -- 13.Historical film -- National cinema, international audiences and historical film -- History in the movies in 2012--13 -- The heritage debate and British film -- |
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Contents note continued: 14.Imagined histories: novels, plays and comics -- Historical novels -- ̀The unmodified Terror of keeping one's Latitude': linearity and futurity in Pynchon and Waters -- The self in history -- Graphic novels and hybrid genres -- pt. VI Material histories -- 15.The everyday historical: local history, antiques, metal-detecting -- Local history -- Community and local history websites -- Metal-detecting, popular archaeology, treasure hunting -- History as hobby: collecting and antiquing -- 16.Museums, tourism, gift shops and the historical experience -- Museum visits and historical experience -- Theories of the museum -- Museums and government -- Museum economics -- Digitisation and the online museum |
| Summary |
This book examines how history works in contemporary popular culture. Analysing a wide range of cultural entities from computer games to daytime television, it investigates the ways in which society consumes history and how a reading of this consumption can help us understand popular culture and issues of representation |
| Notes |
"First edition published in 2009." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Public history
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History in popular culture
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| LC no. |
2015033278 |
| ISBN |
9781138905313 (hardback : alk. paper) |
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9781138905320 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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