Awakening contaminated lands: (Re)mediated landscapes as transcultural TV memory work, a case study of Sky/HBO miniseries, <i>Chernobyl</i> (2019)
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.
Authors
- Janet McCabe (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2916-9876)
Institutions
- Birkbeck, University of London (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Critical Studies in Television The International Journal of Television Studies
- Published
- 2024-09-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1177/17496020241258707
- Primary Topic
- Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00