Because of the possibilities that it opens for a variety of fields and practices, gamification has
increasingly garnered significant attention. This has put it at the forefront of many significant …

Historicity has emerged within anthropology to refer to cultural perceptions of the past. It
calls attention to the techniques such as rituals that people use to learn about the past, the …

This book provides the first in-depth exploration of video games as history. Chapman puts
forth five basic categories of analysis for understanding historical video games: simulation …

'At last, the past has arrived! Performing Remains is Rebecca Schneider's authoritative
statement on a major topic of interest to the field of theatre and performance studies. It …

Public History: A Textbook of Practice is a guide to the many challenges historians face
while teaching, learning, and practicing public history. Historians can play a dynamic and …

How do we rely on media for remembering? In exploring the complex ways that media
converge to support our desire to capture, store and retrieve memories, this textbook offers …

The historical novel is an enduringly popular genre that raises crucial questions about key
literary concepts, fact and fiction, identity, history, reading, and writing. In this …

Exploring the breadth and complexities of history as a field of study, History in Practice
demystifies what historians actually do and the tasks they take on. This study, written by one …

A century ago, in 1915, DW Griffith famously prophesied that history books would be
replaced by movies and that in a not-so-distant future time “the children in the public schools …

Cult Collectors examines cultures of consumption and the fans who collect cult film and TV
merchandise. Author Lincoln Geraghty argues that there has been a change in the fan …