Teaching History in a (New) Media World: Historical Narratives, the Audiovisual, and the Digital Past

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Abstract (may include machine translation)

The article aims to explore a type of historical content that historians have
only begun to talk about – the stories of the past that are suffused through
popular films and television programs and their newest incarnations in the
digital world. The author purpose is to consider both old and new forms of
media as they relate to the representation, diffusion, and discussion of the
past, with particular attention to what it means for creating narratives for new
generations.
The research considers the relationship between media and history in two
ways: (1)to expand the idea of a history as a narrative of words to understand
how historical narrative is realized as an interactive and visual medium, and
(2) to suggest that media versions of history can be seen as another type of
“textbook” – that is a source of narratives and images that shape historical
material into genres and formats that have their own qualities and values.
Original languageAmerican English
Pages (from-to)119-137
Number of pages19
JournalInterstitio: East European Review of Historical Anthropology
Volume1
Issue number2
StatePublished - 2007

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