Telling history : a manual for performers and presenters of first-person narratives /
Dramatic impersonations accompanied by informed discussions are becoming increasingly popular methods of educating visitors to museums and historical sites. This is the first book to provide step-by-step instructions for how to conceive, plan, publicize, present, and pay for such historical presenta...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Lanham :
AltaMira Press,
c2010.
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Colección: | American Association for State and Local History book series.
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Temas: | |
Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction, or, "Read before dissembling and the story of this book"
- The significance of historical performance
- How to choose a historic figure to portray
- Researching for a first-person narrative
- Creating your script
- Telling history
- The business of doing freelance historical performance
- Enhancing museums and historic sites with historical performance
- Dreams and plans
- Appendixes. How to create a first-person narrative
- Structuring the first-person narrative script
- Setting and clothing
- Sample contract
- Sample invoice
- Youth registration forms
- Local arrangements for workshops
- Ride into history's historical performance definitions.