Category: history

  • History and the movies: How to avoid telling lies and getting it wrong

    History and the movies: How to avoid telling lies and getting it wrong

    I have long held a fascination with the complex and chaotic relationship that cinema has with the representation of history. Since the earliest beginnings of humanity’s attempts at iconographic representation, we have endeavoured to tear the past from the vague and intangible clutches of memory and thrust it into the living present moment. Despite these…