HUMA 3985 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Historical Period Drama, Exaggeration, Diegesis
12 May 2020
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Authenticity; not necessarily accurate details of the era. Genres of history films: historical film, period drama, and adaptation. Films cannot be authentic, it can only be a representation of something it presents. It always serves up fiction as real; cinematic realism. East german history on screen after 1989 confirms dominant points-of-view, no critical reflection; it is cinema of consensus. In 1989 the berlin wall came down, and in 1990 east and west germany reunited. German cinema often looks at east germany as heritage cinema , which provides answers, and. Heritage cinema provides clear opposition: victims and perpetration, and moral/immoral. Heritage cinema has a conventional film style and narrative structure, and contains material. Authenticity (it is a painstakingly accurate recreation of the material world). Heritage cinema is a pleasurable experience that is often emotional and/or nostalgic. focuses only on politics, and does not account for individual experience. Film about east germany is problematic since it generalizes and is oversimplified, one-dimensional,
