Staging the Past

Staging the Past
Title Staging the Past PDF eBook
Author Maria Bucur
Publisher Purdue University Press
Pages 356
Release 2001
Genre History
ISBN 9781557531612

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This volume contains three sections of essays which examine the role of commemoration and public celebrations in the creation of a national identity in Habsburg lands. It also seeks to engage historians of culture and of nationalism in other geographic fields as well as colleagues who work on Habsburg Central Europe, but write about nationalism from different vantage points. There is hope that this work will help generate a dialogue, especially with colleagues who live in the regions that were analyzed. Many of the authors consider the commemorations discussed in this volume from very different points of view, as they themselves are strongly rooted in a historical context that remains much closer to the nationalism we critique.

Staging the Past

Staging the Past
Title Staging the Past PDF eBook
Author Judith Schlehe
Publisher transcript Verlag
Pages 275
Release 2014-03-31
Genre Social Science
ISBN 3839414814

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Popular representations of history are taking on new forms and reaching wider audiences. The search for usable pasts is branching out into active appropriations of history such as historical theme parks, housing developments, and live-action role play. Drawing on themed environments across the continents, the articles in this volume focus on how these appropriations bypass, are different from, or even contradict traditional as well as scientific modes of disseminating historical knowledge. Bringing together theorists and practitioners, they provide the basis for an interdisciplinary as well as a transcultural theory of how pasts are staged in various social contexts.

Staging History

Staging History
Title Staging History PDF eBook
Author Michael Burden
Publisher Bodleian Library
Pages 0
Release 2016
Genre PERFORMING ARTS
ISBN 9781851244560

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"In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, historical subjects became some of the most popular topics for stage dramas of all kinds on both sides of the Atlantic. The medium of drama ensured that the telling of these histories--the French Revolution and the American War of Independence, for example, or the travels of Captain Cook and Christopher Columbus--were brought to life through words, music and spectacle. The scale of the productions was often ambitious: a water tank with model floating ships was deployed at Sadler's Wells for the staging of the Siege of Gibraltar, and another production on the same theme used live cannons which set fire to the vessels in each performance. Exploring contemporary theatrical documents and images including playbills, set designs, musical scores and prints, this illustrated collection of essays examines a number of extraordinary dramatic productions and casts light on their role in shaping a popular interpretation of historical events."--

Staging Indigeneity

Staging Indigeneity
Title Staging Indigeneity PDF eBook
Author Katrina Phillips
Publisher UNC Press Books
Pages 263
Release 2021-01-29
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1469662329

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As tourists increasingly moved across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a surprising number of communities looked to capitalize on the histories of Native American people to create tourist attractions. From the Happy Canyon Indian Pageant and Wild West Show in Pendleton, Oregon, to outdoor dramas like Tecumseh! in Chillicothe, Ohio, and Unto These Hills in Cherokee, North Carolina, locals staged performances that claimed to honor an Indigenous past while depicting that past on white settlers' terms. Linking the origins of these performances to their present-day incarnations, this incisive book reveals how they constituted what Katrina Phillips calls "salvage tourism"—a set of practices paralleling so-called salvage ethnography, which documented the histories, languages, and cultures of Indigenous people while reinforcing a belief that Native American societies were inevitably disappearing. Across time, Phillips argues, tourism, nostalgia, and authenticity converge in the creation of salvage tourism, which blends tourism and history, contestations over citizenship, identity, belonging, and the continued use of Indians and Indianness as a means of escape, entertainment, and economic development.

Staging Desire

Staging Desire
Title Staging Desire PDF eBook
Author Kim Marra
Publisher University of Michigan Press
Pages 420
Release 2002
Genre Drama
ISBN 9780472067497

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Recovers the hidden history of theater professionals who transgressed the gendered expectations of their time

Staging the World

Staging the World
Title Staging the World PDF eBook
Author Rebecca E. Karl
Publisher Duke University Press
Pages 332
Release 2002-04-22
Genre History
ISBN 9780822328674

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DIVAn historical analysis of how the Chinese constructed their understandings of their place in the world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries./div

Staging Art and Chineseness

Staging Art and Chineseness
Title Staging Art and Chineseness PDF eBook
Author Jane Chin Davidson
Publisher Rethinking Art's Histories
Pages 0
Release 2020
Genre Art
ISBN 9781526139788

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Questioning what the term 'Chinese art' means in the era of global art, this book situates Chinese contemporary art in the matrix of global expositions and political transnationalisms. Its case studies explore the changing political concept of Chineseness by examining performative, body-oriented video and eco-feminist works.