The Authenticity Feeling: Language and Dialect in the Historical Film

Abstract

The pursuit of authenticity is film’s dominant mode of historical representation. For the overwhelming majority of historical film makers and audiences, authenticity signifies a realistic historical experience, an effective suspension of temporal-spatial disbelief. Authenticity, as the engine of mainstream historical filmmaking, has three chief functions: as an aesthetic strategy, a reception discourse and a marketing discourse.

Keywords

• authenticity
• dialect
• historical film
• language
• the king's speech
• das wunder von bern
• zodiac