The Unveiling, An Introduction

Ivone Margulies is Professor of Film and Media Studies at Hunter College, CUNY. She is the author of Nothing Happens: Chantal Akerman's Hyperrealist Everyday (Duke University Press, 1996), published in translation in an expanded edition by the University of São Paulo Press (2016). She is the editor of Rites of Realism: Essays on Corporeal Cinema (Duke University Press, 2003) and has written on cinéma vérité and psychodrama, French cinema and theatricality, and realism. Her book on in-person reenactment, The Real/Actor: Reenactment in Postwar Cinema, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press.