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Mediating the real: Treme’s activated aesthetic

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posted on 2019-12-11, 14:56 authored by Katie Moylan
This article explores how Treme (HBO 2010–2013) deploys reflexive aesthetic strategies to produce a critique of governmental and municipal corruption and negligence following Hurricane Katrina. Set and filmed in New Orleans, Treme negotiates additional complex layers given that many events referenced are real. The series reworks normative representations of New Orleans typified by an overdetermined authenticity in a reflexive interrogation of recent experience and historical memory. I argue Treme develops an ‘activated aesthetic’ through two textual strategies: opening credit sequences and ‘televisual moments’, mobilising these aesthetic devices to develop a complex, explicitly politicised representation of post-Katrina New Orleans.

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Critical Studies in Television, 2019, 14 (3), pp. 307-321

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School of Media, Communication and Sociology

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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Critical Studies in Television: The International Journal of Television Studies

Volume

14

Issue

3

Pagination

307 - 321

Publisher

SAGE Publications

issn

1749-6020

eissn

1749-6039

Copyright date

2019

Available date

2019-12-11

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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1749602019854366

Language

en

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