Abstract

FELDMAN, Ilana. From Holocaust (1978) to Chernobyl (2019): can audiovisual face a traumatic past and a threatened future?. Acta poét [online]. 2022, vol.43, n.1, pp.11-37.  Epub Apr 25, 2022. ISSN 2448-735X.  https://doi.org/10.19130/iifl.ap.2022.43.1.458722.

Retracing the cultural history of the reception of the TV series Holocaust (1978) as it redefined the politics of the State and put the testimony for the first time at the centre of the cultural field, undermining how the Jewish genocide was perceived until then, the article aims at discuss -by the contributions of Annette Wieviorka and Georges Didi Huberman, among others- through a comparison with the HBO series Chernobyl (2019) and other cinematographic productions, what audio-visual is capable of in front of different forms of State violence, of a traumatic past and of a threatened future.

Keywords : Audio-visual; testimony; Politics of Memory; Pedagogy; Imagination.