Abstract
This article studies how Joris Ivens deployed re-enactment in his Spanish Civil War documentary, The Spanish Earth (1937), relating it to the use of re-enactment by the historian R. G. Collingwood. By examining the historical context and analysing the film and texts by Ivens and Collingwood, I argue that re-enactment is in tension with the ethical responsibilities of documentary vis-à-vis criteria of authenticity. With re-enactment, Ivens inserts fictive elements into documentary even as he remains loyal to a certain ‘truth’ about the war, forging a style that is based on political documentary but which blurs the frontier between performativity and reality.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 1-32 |
Number of pages | 32 |
Journal | Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies |
Volume | 4 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 2 2020 |
Keywords
- Ernest Hemingway
- Joris Ivens
- R. G. Collingwood
- Spanish Civil War
- The Spanish Earth (1937)
- authenticity
- documentary film
- intermediality
- re-enactment
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Cultural Studies
- Visual Arts and Performing Arts
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HRI Prize for Research in the Humanities - Faculty (Honorable Mention)
Ledesma, E. (Recipient), 2020
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