Historical and sociological approach of the miniseries "Chernobyl" (2019) and "Patria" (2020)

Abstract

Nowadays, television series attract spectators of all ages and connect cinema to television because it is a hybrid category which uses cinematic techniques to influence its public via European and American digital platform’s screens. The number of series amateurs exploded during lockdown and various multidisciplinary studies analyzed the series rising phenomenon. If we submit two historical dramas in miniseries Chernobyl (2019) and Patria (2020) to human sciences what can we detect, in filigree, behind the intrigue and the character’s trajectory? Opting for a multidisciplinary approach, we will review these two historical dramas in miniseries from History and Sociology perspectives. Then we will ponder the following issues: how do these miniseries seize History? To what extent these complex narrative structures inform and misinform contemporary society denouncing violence and oppression ideologies? How do these two miniseries initiate a duty of memory in collective unconscious?