Consuming history : historians and heritage in contemporary popular culture / Jerome de Groot.
"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...
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Table of Contents:
- Pt. I The popular historian
- 1.The public historian, the historian in public
- The ǹew 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
- T̀hat's you, that is': historian as child, adventurer and hero
- Historian detectives
- pt. II Digital history
- 4.Genealogy and family history
- Àmateur' history, politicised identity
- Doing family history
- DNA genealogy: science in history
- 5.History online.
- Abundance, prosumption 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 èxtreme 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.
- Documentary as form: self-consciousness and diversion
- Ǹeither wholly fictional nor wholly factual': history on television
- C̀ontemporary, 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 h̀istorical' 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
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- The heritage debate and British film.
- 14.Imagined histories: novels, plays and comics
- Historical novels
- T̀he 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.