Article

Lees, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3787-3740 (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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3787-3740 (2023) Cinema Ex Machina. Sight and Sound.

Lees, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3787-3740, 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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3787-3740 (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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3787-3740 (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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3787-3740 (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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3787-3740 (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

Lees, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3787-3740, (2024) Synthetic Media Research Network — written evidence (ACT0011) to the House of Lords Communications and Digital Select Committee inquiry: Scaling Up: AI and creative tech. Scaling Up - AI and Creative Tech. Report. UK Parliament, Westminster. pp7.

Purse, L., Lees, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3787-3740, Philip, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2186-0619 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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3787-3740, (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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3787-3740 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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3787-3740 (2021) Seeing it on television: televisuality in the contemporary U.S. 'High-End' series. Bloomsbury Academic, London, pp192. ISBN 9781501359422

Thesis

Lees, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3787-3740 (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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3787-3740 (2022) The Burning. [Video] (Sightlines: Filmmaking in the Academy Issue 4 2022)