Reenactments

Reenactments

When I think about the word “reenactments” I get the image of someone reliving an event in history by acting it out. Reenactment is all around us. I barely thought about the word reenactments until this class, so I was amaze to find all these different places that does reenactments. For example, I found a place in Alexandria Virginia called Fort Ward Museum and they do reenactments of the Revolutionary War. It was very interesting to see when I Googled the word reenactments, most of the results I received was about war reenactments; there was not much about other forms of reenactments. In DC there is also a reenactment about a group of soldiers from the war and they call themselves the “54th Massachusetts volunteer infantry.” In television most movies and some shows are based on reenactments of either a way of living during a period of time, or an era. Reenactment allows the viewer to live an event that is historic to a culture or a group of people. Movies such as “Roots” reenact the cruelty of slavery that African American experience during that time. Another example is the 2004-movie “Troy” starring Brad Pitt, which is a reenactment about an era where Greek rulers were at war with one another. For instance, a reenactment on the television show “America’s Most Wanted,” allows the viewers to see the event that occurred by hiring actors to reenact these events. So based on this brief research its safe to say that reenactments do not always involve historical events.