Living History Museums: Undoing History through Performance by Magelssen, Scott

Living History Museums: Undoing History through Performance (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780810858657)

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Living History Museums: Undoing History through Performance by Magelssen, Scott

Living History Museums: Undoing History through Performance

$98.00
Living History Museums: Undoing History through Performance by Magelssen, Scott

Living History Museums: Undoing History through Performance

$98.00
Format: Paperback
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Living History Museums: Undoing History Through Performance examines the performance techniques of Living History Museums, cultural institutions that merge historical exhibits with costumed live performance. Institutions such as Plimoth Plantation and Colonial Williamsburg are analyzed from a theatrical perspective, offering a new genealogy of living museum performance.

Author: Scott Magelssen
ISBN-10: 0810858657
ISBN-13: 9780810858657
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Language: English
Published: 02/01/2007
Pages: 252
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 8.87h x 6.25w x 0.62d

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Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2007 pg. 58
By Scott Magelssen
By Scott Magelssen
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Scott Magelssen is associate professor of Theatre at Bowling Green State University. He has published articles on living history museums in many theatre journals, including Theatre History Studies and The Drama Review. The author won the 2005 Gerald Kahan Award for the Best Essay in Theatre Studies by a Younger Scholar for his article "Performance Practices of [Living] Open-Air Museums (And a New Look at 'Skansen' in American Living Museum Discourse)," published in Theatre History Studies in 2004.

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