03499nam 2200613 a 450 991081772250332120240516102311.00-8173-8535-5(CKB)2560000000079470(EBL)835618(OCoLC)772459646(SSID)ssj0000645640(PQKBManifestationID)11388906(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000645640(PQKBWorkID)10684521(PQKB)10438599(SSID)ssj0000662077(PQKBManifestationID)12269765(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000662077(PQKBWorkID)10714016(PQKB)11360424(MdBmJHUP)muse17206(Au-PeEL)EBL835618(CaPaEBR)ebr10527786(MiAaPQ)EBC835618(EXLCZ)99256000000007947020101206d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrEnacting history /edited by Scott Magelssen and Rhona Justice-Malloy1st ed.Tuscaloosa University of Alabama Pressc20111 online resource (241 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8173-1728-7 0-8173-5654-1 Includes bibliographical references.Introduction / Scott Magelssen -- Present enacting past : the functions of battle reenacting in historical representation / Leigh Clemons -- "This is the place" : performance and the production of space in Mormon cultural memory / Lindsay Adamson Livingston -- Men with their muskets and me in my bare feet : performing history and policing gender at historic Fort Snelling Living History Museum / Amy M. Tyson -- History, archive, memory, and performance : the Lewis and Clark bicentennial play as cultural commemoration / Richard L. Poole -- Defining museum theater at Conner Prairie / Aili McGill -- Performing history as memorialization : thinking with -- And Jesus moonwalks the Mississippi and Brown University's Slavery and Justice Committee / Patricia Ybarra -- Is that real? an exploration of what is real in a performance based on history / Catherine Hughes -- Dinner: impossible -- "medieval mayhem" at the Maryland Renaissance Festival / Kimberly Tony Korol-Evans -- Tourist performance in the twenty-first century / Scott Magelssen -- Ping Chong & Company's Undesirable elements/secret histories in Oxford, Mississippi / Rhona Justice-Malloy.Enacting History is a collection of new essays exploring the world of historical performances. The volume focuses on performances outside the traditional sphere of theatre, among them living history museums, battle reenactments, pageants, renaissance festivals, and adventure-tourism destinations. This volume argues that the recent surge in such performances have raised significant questions about the need for, interest in, and value of such nontraditional theater. Many of these performances claim a greater or lesser degree of historical ""accuracy"" or ""authenticity,"" and the autHistorical reenactmentsHistorical reenactments.900Magelssen Scott1974-854999Justice-Malloy Rhona1601304MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910817722503321Enacting history3994398UNINA