Reenactment : Hybrid Documentaries and Fictional True Stories

André Bazin's realist ontology with Friedrich Nietzsche's perspectivism and integrating them into contemporary media theories, the book argues that cinema today no longer seeks to record reality but to rebuild it. Reenactment emerges as a creative and ethical force, one that exposes the mechanisms of memory and mediation while challenging viewers to evaluate evidence in an age when fact and fabrication dangerously coexist within the same digital ecosystems. Transnational in scope and interdisciplinary in method, Reenactment illuminates the politics of seeing, the labor of truth-making, and the desire to replay history in a moment when our collective sense of reality, memory, and historical consciousness is being reshaped by the screens that mediate it. For scholars of film, media, philosophy, and contemporary culture, this book offers a new framework for understanding how images shape and reshape our world. [Publisher's text]

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