The Meaning of Small Things: Everyday Drama and History from Below

Ib Bondebjerg

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-60496-7_4

The Meaning of Small Things: Everyday Drama and History from Below

Ib Bondebjerg^*

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Department of Communication

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This chapter analyzes the relation between macro-history, the big historical events and structures, and micro-history, the everyday lives of people and families and how history influences them. The chapter is based on a comparative analysis of Edgar Reitz’s famous international success Heimat – Eine Deutsche Chronik (1984, here called Heimat 1) and Peter Moffat’s English series The Village (I–II, 2013–2014), which the writer-director himself has called ‘a British Heimat’. The two series are placed in a theoretical context of ordinary life studies, but the way they frame history and the potential point of reception they create to historical events is also discussed from a cognitive memory perspective. The comparative analysis points to similarities between the two series, but also clear differences.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Palgrave European Film and Media Studies
Number of pages	36
Publisher	Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
Publication date	2020
Pages	73-108
Chapter	4
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-60495-0
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-030-60496-7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60496-7_4
Publication status	Published - 2020

Series	Palgrave European Film and Media Studies
ISSN	2634-615X

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