ABSTRACT
Consuming History examines how history works in contemporary popular culture. Analysing a wide range of cultural entities from computer games to daytime television, it investigates the ways in which society consumes history and how a reading of this consumption can help us understand popular culture and issues of representation.
In this second edition, Jerome de Groot probes how museums have responded to the heritage debate and how new technologies from online game-playing to internet genealogy have brought about a shift in access to history, discussing the often conflicted relationship between ‘public’ and academic history and raising important questions about the theory and practice of history as a discipline. Fully revised throughout with up-to-date examples from sources such as Wolf Hall, Game of Thrones and 12 Years a Slave, this edition also includes new sections on the historical novel, gaming, social media and genealogy. It considers new, ground-breaking texts and media such as YouTube in addition to entities and practices, such as re-enactment, that have been underrepresented in historical discussion thus far.
Engaging with a broad spectrum of source material and comparing the experiences of the UK, the USA, France and Germany as well as exploring more global trends, Consuming History offers an essential path through the debates for readers interested in history, cultural studies and the media.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |12 pages
Introduction
part |54 pages
The popular historian
chapter |19 pages
The public historian, the historian in public
chapter |21 pages
Popular history in print
chapter |10 pages
The historian in popular culture
part |38 pages
Digital history
chapter |16 pages
Genealogy and family history
chapter |18 pages
History online
part |60 pages
Performing and playing history
chapter |25 pages
Historical re-enactment
chapter |18 pages
Performing pastness, recycling culture and cultural re-enactment
chapter |13 pages
History games
part |54 pages
History on television
chapter |14 pages
Contemporary historical documentary
chapter |32 pages
Reality, professional reality, celebrity and object history
chapter |4 pages
History on television around the world
part |57 pages
The ‘historical' as cultural genre
part |33 pages
Material histories