Cinema and authenticity: anxieties in the making of historical film
Lees, Dominic (2016) Cinema and authenticity: anxieties in the making of historical film. Journal of Media Practice. ISSN 1468-2753 (Print) 2040-0926 (Online)
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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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