Consuming History Historians and Heritage in Contemporary Popular Culture First Edition by Jerome De Groot ISBN 978-0415399456 0415399459

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ISBN 10: 0415399459

ISBN 13: 978-0415399456

Author:  Jerome De Groot

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.

Table of contents: 

PART I
The popular historian

1 The public historian, the historian in public
The ‘new gardening and the publicity historian
History, historians, historiography, and celebrity: Great Britons
The 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
The Da Vinci Code

PART II
Enfranchisement, ownership and consumption: ‘Amateur’ histories

4 The everyday historical: local history, metal detecting, antiques
Local history
Metal detecting, popular archaeology, treasure hunting
History as hobby: collecting and antiquing
Antiques on television: Antiques Roadshow, Flog It!, Bargain Hunt

5 Genealogy: hobby, politics, science
‘I’m getting more and more Jewish as this goes on’: self-identity and celebrity revelation
Roots, identity genealogy and America
Science: genetic genealogy and daytime detection

6 Digital history: archives, information architecture, encyclopaedias, community websites and search engines
New sources, new tools, new archives
Networked interfaces with information: search engines, Wikipedia
Hacking history: Google Earth
Open source code and community websites

PART III
Performing and playing history

7 Historical re-enactment
Combat re-enactment: WARS and the Sealed Knot
Re-enactment and place as historical evidence: documentary
Living theatre: museums, live and Living History
Getting medievalish: anachronism, faires and banquets

8 Recycling culture and re-enactment/cultural re-enactment
Music, performance and remakes
The first time as atonement, the second time as art: Lifeline and Jeremy Deller
The extreme historian: reinhabiting the past

9 History games
First person shoot’em up history
Role playing and history as identity

PART IV
History on television

10 Contemporary historical documentary
Documentary as form: self-consciousness and diversion
“Neither wholly fictional nor wholly factual: history on television
Contemporary, lively and egalitarian: Schama and Starkey
History on international television

11 Reality History
Empathy, authenticity and identity
Reality TV
Historical difference and ideology
Authenticity and the historical revelation of self

PART V
The ‘historical’ as cultural genre

12 Historical television: classic serial, costume drama and comedy
Adaptation and costume drama
Queering the genre: Tipping the Velvet and The Line of Beauty
Boy’s own authentic drama: Sharpe and Hornblower
Innovation and obscenity: Rome and Deadwood
‘Good moaning: comedy and time travel

13 Historical film
National cinema, international audiences and historical film
The heritage debate and British film
History, complexity and horror: Atonement and The Wind that Shakes the Barley

14 Imagined histories: novels, plays and comics
A bodice-ripper with a bibliography: historical novels
Graphic novels and hybrid genres
Historical stage drama

PART VI
Artefact and interpretation

15 Museums and physical encounters with the past
Museums and government policy
Digitisation and economics
Conclusions: nostalgia isn’t what it used to be

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