Faculty Member Publishes Article on Early Film Reenactments

In March, Alex Bordino, Ph.D., assistant professor of communication for the Department of Communication, Media, and the Arts in the Halmos College, published an article in The Journal of American Culture examining how early film reenactments of real events aligned with an “antimodern sensibility” and often fetishize Indigenous cultures.

The article, titled “Antimodernism and Indigenous Reconstruction: Proto-Ethnographic Attractions in Early Cinema, 1894-1914” is based on a portion of his dissertation research and argues that early film reenactments produce a desire to “reject modernity” and embrace premodern cultures, turning these cultures into a capitalist commodity.

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 The Journal of American Culture is a multidisciplinary journal which accepts studies of American literature, history and the arts with the aim of producing holistic analyses of American culture.

Bordino, who teaches digital media courses in the B.A. in Communication program, is an experienced feature-film editor and event videographer. He has also published in the Journal of Screenwriting, Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal, and the Journal of Film and Video.

Posted 05/22/22