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...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: McCalman, Iain (Editor), Pickering, Paul A. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London Palgrave Macmillan UK 2010, 2010
Series:Reenactment History
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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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
Physical Description:XI, 229 p. 12 illus online resource
ISBN:9780230277090