Introduction 1. Mediated immediacy: constructing authentic testimony in audio-visual media 2. Politics and technologies of authenticity: the Second World War at the close of living memory 3. Doing pasts: authenticity from the reenactors’ perspective 4. ‘Part of the project of that book was not to be authentic’: neo-historical authenticity and its anachronisms in contemporary historical fiction 5. ‘I am two distinct beings’: Paul de Man’s authenticating project 6. The guilt of the past: medievalist closures and disclosures 7. Negotiating accuracy and authenticity in an Aboriginal King Lear 8. Dead history, live art: encountering the past with Stuart Brisley 9. Telling stories: performing authenticity in the confessional art of Tracey Emin
Biography
Patrick Finney works in the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth University, UK. He has research interests in collective memory, especially in relation to the Second World War, and international history, with particular reference to the inter-war years and historiographical issues. He is the UK editor of Rethinking History.
