Les séries historiques entre la fiction et le réel : quand les scénaristes rivalisent avec les historiens

Abstract

This article explores the links between the narratives that historians construct in their books and the narratives proposed by historic television series in order to bring to light how the latter can compete with the former. Its first part shows the assets at the disposition of authors of televised fictions to deal with the past in a particularly rich and vivid way, even more so than cinema. Its second part establishes that so-called historical series often draw from a work of memory rather than of history, precisely because the past is understood as living in an approach where affect wins out over reason. Its third part attempts to define a series that could be considered truly “historian”, which is to say constructed according to a perspective similar to that of historians towards their objects of study.

Keywords

• history
• memory
• Band of Brothers
• Pacific (The)
• Rome
• Tudors (The)