TY - JOUR
T1 - Between Transnationalism and Localization: The Pan-European TV Miniseries 14 - Diaries of the Great War
AU - Andersen, Tea Sindbæk
AU - Arnold-de Simine, Silke
PY - 2017/4
Y1 - 2017/4
N2 - 14 –Diaries of the Great War is a transmedial project consisting of a documentary TV-series, a website, a radio programme, a photo book and a museum exhibition, produced for the centenary of World War One in 2014. The project was created by a transnational collaboration and aimed for a transnational audience. The TV-series aspired to create a new kind of historical documentary, showing history as it was experienced by ordinary people. This article compares how 14 – Diaries of the Great War was realised and received in Great Britain, Germany, Denmark and Sweden. We argue that the TV-series, in spite of its transnational origin and ambitions was in effect being localized and re-nationalized, as it was adapted to the presumed preferences of national audiences.
AB - 14 –Diaries of the Great War is a transmedial project consisting of a documentary TV-series, a website, a radio programme, a photo book and a museum exhibition, produced for the centenary of World War One in 2014. The project was created by a transnational collaboration and aimed for a transnational audience. The TV-series aspired to create a new kind of historical documentary, showing history as it was experienced by ordinary people. This article compares how 14 – Diaries of the Great War was realised and received in Great Britain, Germany, Denmark and Sweden. We argue that the TV-series, in spite of its transnational origin and ambitions was in effect being localized and re-nationalized, as it was adapted to the presumed preferences of national audiences.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Transnational memory
KW - World War One Centenary
KW - Commemoration
KW - TV documentary
KW - 14 diaries of the Great War
KW - Transmediality
UR - http://www.imageandnarrative.be/index.php/imagenarrative/article/view/1480
M3 - Journal article
SN - 1780-678X
VL - 18
SP - 63
EP - 79
JO - Image [&] Narrative
JF - Image [&] Narrative
IS - 1
ER -