How is History represented in television fiction? Where do reality end and fiction begin? Which themes and periods are favored by Portuguese television fiction? How historical episodes, characters, and environments are represented? Through an interdisciplinary approach, the authors of this book place history in images at the center of the action and set out on an analytical journey through the productions of Portuguese generalist television in the last decades, tracing a genealogy of the titles, themes, eras, formats, genres, models and productive tendencies of national historical fiction. The team of authors focused on the period 1990-2013 and converged on the themes of the Estado Novo and its effects, following the thematic lines most worked on by the recent and young academic and literary production in the field of contemporary history. To achieve these objectives, four titles were chosen and worked on - A Raia dos Medos (RTP1, 2000), A Vida Privada de Salazar (SIC, 2009), Até Amanhã, Camaradas (SIC, 2005), and Conta-me Como Foi (RTP, 2007-11).
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