Remaking History The Past in Contemporary Historical Fictions 1st Edition by Jerome De Groot ISBN 978-0415858786 041585878X
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ISBN 10: 041585878X
ISBN 13: 978-0415858786
Author: Jerome De Groot
Remaking History considers the ways that historical fictions of all kinds enable a complex engagement with the past. Popular historical texts including films, television and novels, along with cultural phenomena such as superheroes and vampires, broker relationships to ‘history’, while also enabling audiences to understand the ways in which the past is written, structured and ordered.
Jerome de Groot uses examples from contemporary popular culture to show the relationship between fiction and history in two key ways. Firstly, the texts pedagogically contribute to the historical imaginary and secondly they allow reflection upon how the past is constructed as ‘history’. In doing so, they provide an accessible and engaging means to critique, conceptualize and reject the processes of historical representation. The book looks at the use of the past in fiction from sources including Mad Men, Downton Abbey and Howard Brenton’s Anne Boleyn, along with the work of directors such as Terence Malick, Quentin Tarantino and Martin Scorsese, to show that fictional representations enable a comprehension of the fundamental strangeness of the past and the ways in which this foreign, exotic other is constructed.
Drawing from popular films, novels and TV series of recent years, and engaging with key thinkers from Marx to Derrida, Remaking History is a must for all students interested in the meaning that history has for fiction, and vice versa.
Table of contents:
Section One: Ethics, Politics, and Nationalism
Chapter One: Reading and Ethics
Chapter 2: Challenging National Histories
Section Two: Haunting, Ghostliness, and the Undead
Chapter Three: The Materiality of the Past
Chapter Four: The Problem of Time and the Return of the Dead
Section Three: Pleasure, Affect, and Performance
Chapter Five: Pleasure and Desire
Chapter 6: Performance and Affect
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