The Role of History in Bestseller and Blockbuster Culture
History provides an infinite supply of dramatic events, stories, characters and conflicts. The article provides a brief overview of prevalent conceptions and ideas of history that can be applied to the wide-spread historical fictions of the bestseller and blockbuster culture. On the background of th...
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| author | Gunhild Agger |
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| description | History provides an infinite supply of dramatic events, stories, characters and conflicts. The article provides a brief overview of prevalent conceptions and ideas of history that can be applied to the wide-spread historical fictions of the bestseller and blockbuster culture. On the background of the current alliance between history and media, I propose a methodological distinction between three levels: 1) a historiographical level, concerned with overall considerations and reflections, 2) a user-orientated level focussing on the uses and functions of history, and 3) a genre-orientated level considering historical films and TV drama productions within a frame of genre traditions, including hybrids. The insights are applied analytically using the case of the Danish bestseller biography and blockbuster film Marie Krøyer.
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| spelling | doaj.art-ba987b1899ad4286aeaf97336093865e2024-04-02T11:34:07ZdanAalborg University Open PublishingAkademisk Kvarter1904-00082013-12-01710.5278/ojs.academicquarter.v0i7.2837The Role of History in Bestseller and Blockbuster CultureGunhild AggerHistory provides an infinite supply of dramatic events, stories, characters and conflicts. The article provides a brief overview of prevalent conceptions and ideas of history that can be applied to the wide-spread historical fictions of the bestseller and blockbuster culture. On the background of the current alliance between history and media, I propose a methodological distinction between three levels: 1) a historiographical level, concerned with overall considerations and reflections, 2) a user-orientated level focussing on the uses and functions of history, and 3) a genre-orientated level considering historical films and TV drama productions within a frame of genre traditions, including hybrids. The insights are applied analytically using the case of the Danish bestseller biography and blockbuster film Marie Krøyer. https://journals.aau.dk/index.php/ak/article/view/2837Historical cinema, Bestseller biographies, Biographical blockbusters, History and media culture, Marie Krøyer |
| spellingShingle | Gunhild Agger The Role of History in Bestseller and Blockbuster Culture Akademisk Kvarter Historical cinema, Bestseller biographies, Biographical blockbusters, History and media culture, Marie Krøyer |
| title | The Role of History in Bestseller and Blockbuster Culture |
| title_full | The Role of History in Bestseller and Blockbuster Culture |
| title_fullStr | The Role of History in Bestseller and Blockbuster Culture |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Role of History in Bestseller and Blockbuster Culture |
| title_short | The Role of History in Bestseller and Blockbuster Culture |
| title_sort | role of history in bestseller and blockbuster culture |
| topic | Historical cinema, Bestseller biographies, Biographical blockbusters, History and media culture, Marie Krøyer |
| url | https://journals.aau.dk/index.php/ak/article/view/2837 |
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