4. The Abolition as Costume Film: Amazing Grace – Black History with a White Hero

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Editorial 2
3. Contents 5
4. Acknowledgments 7
5. Note on Citations 9
6. Introduction 11
7. PART I: Between Public and Popular: Approaching a Black British History
8. 1. Discovering a Past for the Present 17
9. 2. Historical Culture and Social Communication 37
10. 3. Popular Re/Presentation of History and Its Media 47
11. 4. Key Aims and Questions 53
12. PART II: The Bicentenary Effect: How the Slave Trade, Slavery and Abolition Went Public
13. 1. Remembering and Forgetting Slavery 57
14. 2. Screening Slavery and the Slave Trade before the Bicentenary 65
15. 3. Simon Schama’s Rough Crossings: From Popular History Book to Television History 81
16. 4. The Abolition as Costume Film: Amazing Grace – Black History with a White Hero 99
17. 5. Setting a Critical Tone: In Search of William Wilberforce 115
18. 6. ›Doing an Anniversary‹: The Event Culture Surrounding 2007 121
19. 7. The Impact of 2007 – Slavery and the Slave Trade in British Museums 135
20. 8. Family Matters: Genealogy as Popular (Black) History 163
21. PART III: Keeping Post-War Migration Visible: The Windrush Story in the Twenty-First Century
22. 1. Screening and Staging an Arrival 183
23. 2. Family, Sport and Period in Wondrous Oblivion 185
24. 3. Notting Hill in a Historical Crime Serial 199
25. 4. Migration as Heritage Drama? Small Island 207
26. 5. Migration History as Entertainment? Trends in Contemporary British Theatre 231
27. 6. The Windrush Story as Musical 239
28. Conclusion 251
29. Bibliography 255
30. Index 279