Article

Lees, D. (2023) Deepfakes in documentary film production: images of deception in the representation of the real. Studies in Documentary Film. ISSN 1750-3280 doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/17503280.2023.2284680

Lees, D. (2023) Cinema Ex Machina. Sight and Sound.

Lees, D., Bashford-Rogers, T. and Keppel-Palmer, M. (2021) The digital resurrection of Margaret Thatcher: creative, technological and legal dilemmas in the use of deepfakes in screen drama. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 27 (4). pp. 954-973. ISSN 1354-8565 doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/13548565211030452 (Special Issue: 'The Digital Face and Deepfakes on Screen')

Sexton, M. and Lees, D. (2019) Fargo: seeing the significance of style in television poetics? Critical Studies in Television: The International Journal of Television Studies, 14 (3). pp. 343-361. ISSN 1749-6020 doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/1749602019853792

Lees, D. (2019) Improvisation as a research methodology: Exploring links between filmmakers’ practice and traditions of enquiry across the academy. Media Practice and Education, 20 (2). pp. 134-146. ISSN 2574-1136 doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/25741136.2019.1605675

Lees, D. (2016) Cinema and authenticity: anxieties in the making of historical film. Journal of Media Practice, 17 (2-3). pp. 199-212. ISSN 2574-1144 doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/14682753.2016.1248190

Book or Report Section

Lees, D. (2019) Many ways of directing a film: teaching the ‘modes of creative practice’. In: Mourao, M. D., Semerdjiev, S., Mello, C. and Taylor, A. (eds.) The 21st Century Film, TV and Media School Book – Volume 2: Directing the future. CILECT - the International Association of Film and Television Schools, Sofia, pp. 28-39. ISBN 9786197358087

Report

Purse, L., Lees, D., Philip, A. and Ghosh, S., (2023) What can the industry and Government do to ensure British film and high-end television can adapt for the future? Report. UK Parliament, Westminster. pp4.

Lees, D., (2022) Evidence to the inquiry of the Communications and Digital Committee of the House of Lords, ‘A Creative Future’. A Creative Future. CRF0008. Report. UK Parliament, London.

Book

Bode, L., Lees, D. and Golding, D., eds. (2021) The digital face and deepfakes on screen. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 27 (4). Sage Publications, pp. 849-854. (Special Issue)

Sexton, M. and Lees, D. (2021) Seeing it on television: televisuality in the contemporary U.S. 'High-End' series. Bloomsbury Academic, London, pp192. ISBN 9781501359422

Thesis

Lees, D. (2019) Modes of Creative Practice in the directing of independent fiction films. PhD thesis, University of Reading. doi: https://doi.org/10.48683/1926.00104350

Video

Lees, D. (2022) The Burning. [Video] (Sightlines: Filmmaking in the Academy Issue 4 2022)