Dr Dominic Lees Dominic.Lees@uwe.ac.uk
AHOD in Filmaking
Cinema and authenticity: Anxieties in the making of historical film
Lees, Dominic
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Abstract
© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The practice of representing history on film brings the filmmaker into collision with a cluster of concerns around the authentic. While recent articles have considered the historical documentary and historical dramatisation, I seek to extend the debate into narrative fiction film set in historical periods. In this article, I discuss conflicting conceptions of authenticity. Through my own practice-as-research, I examine the decision-making within the preproduction of a historical drama (my short film, The Burning, 2016) in order to demonstrate the ways in which contradictory concepts of authenticity can coexist within a historical film project.
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Lees, D. (2016). Cinema and authenticity: Anxieties in the making of historical film. Journal of Media Practice, 17(2-3), 199-212. https://doi.org/10.1080/14682753.2016.1248190
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Aug 25, 2016 |
Online Publication Date | Oct 27, 2016 |
Publication Date | Sep 1, 2016 |
Deposit Date | Oct 18, 2018 |
Publicly Available Date | Oct 18, 2018 |
Journal | Journal of Media Practice |
Print ISSN | 1468-2753 |
Electronic ISSN | 2040-0926 |
Publisher | Taylor and Francis |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 17 |
Issue | 2-3 |
Pages | 199-212 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/14682753.2016.1248190 |
Keywords | historical film, authenticity, verisimilitude, memory, film practice, film directing |
Public URL | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/908603 |
Publisher URL | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14682753.2016.1248190 |
Related Public URLs | https://research.uca.ac.uk/3234/ |
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