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Author:   Anthony Jackson ,  Jenny Kidd ,  Rebecca Mortimer
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.349kg
ISBN:  

9780719089053

ISBN 10:   0719089050
Pages:   297
Publication Date:   01 September 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Introduction - Anthony Jackson and Jenny Kidd 1. Engaging the audience: negotiating performance in the museum - Anthony Jackson 2. ‘Watching me, watching you’: performance and performativity in the museum - Helen Rees Leahy 3. Creating heritage experiences through architecture - Alke Gröppel-Wegener 4. The space of museum theatre: a framework for performing heritage - Paul Johnson 5. The ‘Doing’ of Heritage: heritage as performance - Laurajane Smith 6. Intangible Heritage and the performance of identity - Marilena Alivizatou 7. Authenticity and metaphor: displaying Intangible Human Remains in museum theatre - Anna Farthing 8. Interpreting Msinsi: culture, tourism and story-telling in the Isimangaliso Wetland Park - Emma Durden and Nicky du Plessis 9. Nostalgia for the future of the past - Baz Kershaw 10. Performing Cultural Heritage: an analysis of ‘Weaving Paths’ - Royona Mitra 11. A la Ronde - eccentricity, heritage and the end of the world - Phil Smith 12. Triangle’s Immersive Museum Theatre: performativity, historical interpretation and research in-role - Richard Talbot and Norwood Andrews 13. Mirror Neurons and Simulation: the role of the spectator in museum theatre - Catherine Hughes 14. ‘The costume of openness’: participatory performance in heritage environments - Jenny Kidd 15. Performing Human Rights: engaging visitors in dialogue at two historic site Museums of Conscience - Joel Chalfen 16. “For a little road it is not. For it is a great road; it is long”: performing heritage for development in the Cape - Mark Fleishman Appendix - The Performance, Learning and Heritage project -- .

Reviews

...the book successfully delivers a wide discourse on the definition and value of performance and heritage and relates them to the 'new museology', recognising the role of the audience/visitor in constructing their own meaning. -- Kirsty Sullivan. Issue 2014/4

Author Information

Anthony Jackson is Emeritus Professor of Educational Theatre at The University of Manchester|Jenny Kidd is Lecturer in Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University.

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