The Reenactment in Contemporary Screen Culture: Performance, Mediation, Repetition

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...