Reenactment - Einzelansicht

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Recent years have seen a growing interest in performative enactments of past events in popular culture, as well as educational, media and artistic contexts. Reenactments are increasingly the subject of academic reflection in historical, cultural and media studies. This seminar focuses on different forms of experiential engagements with the past in historical research and TV documentaries, as well as theatrical, performative and cinematic experiments with embodied repetition. We will examine the educational potential of reenactments, the importance of affect for performers and spectators alike, the desire for authenticity, and we will reflect on the wider implications of this specific medial form of cultural memory.

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