Performing Public History: Case Studies in Historical Storytelling

by David Dean

Book Overview

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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367775360
• ISBN13: 9780367775360
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.