Consuming History: Historians and Heritage in Contemporary Popular CultureRoutledge, 13 sty 2009 - 304 Non-academic history – ‘public history’ – is a complex, dynamic entity which impacts on the popular understanding of the past at all levels. In Consuming History, Jerome de Groot examines how society consumes history and how a reading of this consumption can help us understand popular culture and issues of representation. This book analyzes a wide range of cultural entities – from computer games to daytime television, from blockbuster fictional narratives such as Da Vinci Code to DNA genealogical tools – to analyze how history works in contemporary popular culture. Jerome de Groot probes how museums have responded to the heritage debate and the way in which new technologies have brought about a shift in access to history, from online game playing to internet genealogy. He discusses the often conflicted relationship between ‘public’ and academic history, and raises important questions about the theory and practice of history as a discipline. Whilst mainly focussing on the UK, the book also compares the experiences of the USA, France and Germany. Consuming History is an important and engaging analysis of the social consumption of history and offers an essential path through the debates for readers interested in history, cultural studies and the media. |
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Acknowledgements | |
The new gardeningandthepublicityhistorian | |
Great Britons 22 | |
Popular history in print 31 | |
35 | |
magazines 44 | |
The historian inpopular culture49 | |
hunting 65 | |
Recycling cultureand reenactmentcultural re enactment 124 | |
History games133 | |
Role playing and historyasidentity 139 | |
and Starkey 154 | |
classic serial costume drama | |
and comedy 184 Adaptation and costume drama 185 | |
199 | |
Historical film 208 | |
The historical as cultural genre 147 | |
selfidentity and celebrity revelation 77 Roots identity genealogy and America 84 | |
engines Wikipedia 93 | |
Google Earth 98 | |
Historical reenactment 105 | |
WARS and theSealed Knot 105 | |
anachronism faires | |
novels plays and comics 217 | |
Museums and physical encounters withthe past 236 | |
nostalgia isnt what itusedtobe248 | |
141 | |
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