In Person
Reenactment in Postwar and Contemporary Cinema
Ivone Margulies
Reviews and Awards
"Inventive, incisive, subtle. An essential book for understanding what is at stake when a person replays her own past on camera. At that fertile place where aesthetics and history meet, Margulies offers us an exceptionally relevant analysis of post-Holocaust cinema." --Sylvie Lindeperg, Professor, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
"Margulies demonstrates just how complex this question is with richly interdisciplinary research, an amazing range of examples, and an astounding number of insights. This book is destined to be a classic." --Bill Nichols, author of Introduction to Documentary, 3rd edition
"This most necessary book will serve as the foundation for any future study of the cinematic mode of reenactment. Margulies moves artfully among the discourses of realist cinema and documentary, theater and performance studies, genre theory, contemporary philosophy and therapeutic practice with a globe-spanning analysis of the existential quandaries to which this fascinating style of filmmaking gives rise." --Jonathan Kahana, author of Intelligence Work: The Politics of American Documentary and editor of The Documentary Film Reader: History, Theory, Criticism
"Margulies book makes a timely and original argument for the Humanities by offering a new assessment of the powers and responsibilities of the arts. It will be essential reading in many fields of inquiry beyond its obvious relevance to film studies: Holocaust studies, genre studies, theater, anthropology, and each of the many national cinema traditions and individual filmmakers considered." --Lynn Higgins, Dartmouth College