Historical Drama on Screen

Is there an ‘Historical Drama’ genre? From award-winning blockbusters to Sunday night television, royal biopic to ‘period’ crime, history appears on screen in multiple and diverse forms often amidst controversy surrounding the balance of authentic re-creation and fictive creation. Considering examples from cinematic biopic to long-running open-ended ‘soap-operas’ such as Call the Midwife or Downton Abbey, to adapting classics like Austen or Shakespeare, this course will offer a chance to explore and debate the tension between authenticity and entertainment.

Tutor: Sarah Betts MA

• Term: Spring
• Day: Wednesday
• Start Date: 22 January 2020
• Time: 7-9pm
• No. of weeks: 6
• Full fee: £47

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