Historical Reenactment: From Realism to the Affective Turn

Pickering, Paul; McCalman, Iain

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Historical Reenactment: From Realism to the Affective Turn

Date

2010

Authors

Pickering, Paul

McCalman, Iain

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan Ltd

Abstract

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