Dramatising democracy: Abraham Lincoln on screen
Thu 2 Jun 2016, 19:00 - 22:00
- Venue
- The British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH
How much artistic license can filmmakers take with ‘real’ characters? How do their decisions impact our perspectives?
Film historian, Melvyn Stokes, explores these questions and more in a special introduction to a screening of Spielberg's Lincoln (2012).
Speaker:
Professor Melvyn Stokes, Professor of Film History, UCL
Introduced by Professor Ian Christie FBA, Anniversary Professor of Film and Media History, Birkbeck, University of London
Interested in this event? Find out more about our season on political leadership which took place in June 2016.