NAVIGATING HISTORY ON SCREEN

I love devouring ‘creative interpretations’ of history, watching theatre, film and television dramas set in the past, and reading historical fiction. I’ve found that unpicking why filmmakers might have made certain choices can be a useful tool in the historian’s toolkit, and this is a key part of my research.

For my interdisciplinary PhD at the University of Tasmania, I investigated my own creative process of adapting history for theatre and digital media. One of the most important questions was about the role of accuracy in the creative interpretation of history.

Accuracy

For the historian, interpreting