The reenactment in contemporary screen culture : performance, meditation, repetition / Megan Carrigy.
"During the first decades of the 21st century, a critical re-assessment of the reenactment as a form of historical representation has taken place in the disciplines of history, art history and performance studies. Engagement with the reenactment in film and media studies has come almost entirel...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
[2021]
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| Summary: | "During the first decades of the 21st century, a critical re-assessment of the reenactment as a form of historical representation has taken place in the disciplines of history, art history and performance studies. Engagement with the reenactment in film and media studies has come almost entirely from the field of documentary studies and has focused almost exclusively on non-fiction, even though reenactments are being employed across fiction and non-fiction film and television genres. Working with an eclectic collection of case studies from Milk, Monster, Boys Don't Cry, and The Battle of Orgreave to CSI and the video of police assaulting Rodney King, this book examines the relationship between the status of theatricality in the reenactment and the ways in which its relationships to reference are performed. Carrigy shows that while the practice of reenactment predates technically reproducible media, and continues to exist in both live and mediated forms, it has been thoroughly transformed through its incorporation within forms of technical media"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 196 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1501359363 9781501359361 |