McCabe, Janet (2024) Unseen particles in time: coproducing transcultural memory as a discourse of TV legitimacy within the Sky/HBO Miniseries TV event, Chernobyl (2019). In: Dunleavy, T. and Weissmann, E. (eds.) TV Drama in the Multiplatform Era: Transnational Coproduction and Cultural Specificity. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 141-164. ISBN 9783031355844.
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Abstract
“Unseen Particles in Time” considers what it is to produce a mediated transcultural memory as historic witness of Chernobyl within the context of a contemporary high-end transnational TV coproduction. This contribution adds to the debate of (trans)national imaginaries facilitated by a cross-border media environment, with a case study of the first collaboration between Sky in association with HBO Miniseries: Chernobyl (2019), a story of a catastrophic national disaster with transnational implications. Drawing on theories of memory and the politics of culture, I seek to explore how a memory of this unparalleled disaster is made in the process of a transnational coproduction 30 years after the fact, an enterprise which legitimatises a specific field of TV cultural production. Questions of time, spatio-temporality and memory as a language of time threads through the thesis, as this chapter explores the production of transcultural memories in televisual aesthetics and textual properties to represent a transnational television legitimacy.
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| Item Type: | Book Section |
|---|---|
| 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 15:45 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Sep 2025 22:56 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/55818 |
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