Historical Reenactment - From Realism to the Affective Turn

Since the late 1700s new forms of visual entertainment have tried to simulate the details of nature: reenactment has now become the most widely-consumed form of popular history. This book engages with the quest for definition and appropriate delimitation of reenactment as well as questions about the relationship between realism and affect.

List of contents

List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: From Realism to the Affective Turn: An Agenda; I.McCalman & P.A.Pickering '... Just As It Would Have Been in 1861': Stuttering Colonial Beginnings in ABC's Outback House; A.Schwarz 'Recreating Chaos': Jeremy Deller's The Battle Of Orgreave; K.Kitamura On Being A Mobile Monument: Historical Reenactments And Commemorations; S.Gapps What Should We Do About Slavery? Slavery, Abolition and Public History; J.Walvin Reenactment and Neo-Realism; J.Brewer Textual Realism and Reenactment; J.Walker 'No Witnesses. No Leads. No Problems': The Reenactment of Crime and Rebellion; P.A.Pickering R.G. Collingwood, Historical Reenactment and the Early Music Revival; K.Bowan 'From Wigwam to White Lights': Popular Culture, Politics, and the Performance of Native North American Identity in the Era of Assimilationism; R.B.Phillips & T.Nicks Mimic Toil: Eighteenth-Century Preconditions for the Modern Historical Reenactment; S.During Loutherbourg's Simulations: Reenactment and Realism in Late-Georgian Britain; I.McCalman

About the author

Iain McCalman, geboren 1947, ist Direktor des Humanities Research Centre an der Universität Canberra/Australien. Durch eine seiner Buchveröffentlichungen wurde er bekannt als Kulturhistoriker.

Summary

Since the late 1700s new forms of visual entertainment have tried to simulate the details of nature: reenactment has now become the most widely-consumed form of popular history. This book engages with the quest for definition and appropriate delimitation of reenactment as well as questions about the relationship between realism and affect.

Product details

• Authors: Iain McCalman
• Assisted by: I. McCalman (Editor), Iain McCalman (Editor), Pickering (Editor), P Pickering (Editor), P. Pickering (Editor), Paul A. Pickering (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2016
• EAN: 9781349366095
• ISBN: 978-1-349-36609-5
• No. of pages: 229
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 312 g
• Illustrations: XI, 229 p. 12 illus.
• Series: Re-Enactment History; Re-Enactment History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; B, Cultural History, Performing Arts, Social History, Environment, Social & cultural history, world history, General & world history, The environment, Historiography, General and world history, Environmental Sciences, Environment, general, World History, Global and Transnational History, Civilization—History, Palgrave History Collection, Theatre and Performance Arts, Historiography and Method