Le désert des héros : récits de vies solitaires dans les séries américaines de fiction

For the last twenty years, American television series have left aside the topic of adventure in the sense of evasion in order to produce a new kind of hero. The modern day hero is the mirror image of the modern individual who acts and thinks in an endless present tense, poisoned by an “evil” that ke...

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Main Author: Joseph Belletante
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Published: Conserveries Mémorielles 2010-04-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/cm/439
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description For the last twenty years, American television series have left aside the topic of adventure in the sense of evasion in order to produce a new kind of hero. The modern day hero is the mirror image of the modern individual who acts and thinks in an endless present tense, poisoned by an “evil” that keeps him from moving forward. In a post-critic perspective, this article offers a portrait of human “states of mind” that will restitute the spectator his symbolic autonomy, through singular solitudes or the loneliness of a group as is shown by four television series that are no longer in production (Friends, The Sopranos, The West Wing and Ally McBeal) in order to allow a global interpretation and that correspond to the main genres of fiction broadcasted by the American network (comedy, drama, and dramedy).
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Le désert des héros : récits de vies solitaires dans les séries américaines de fiction
Conserveries Mémorielles
TV shows
solitude
everyday
evil
modernity
identification
title Le désert des héros : récits de vies solitaires dans les séries américaines de fiction
title_full Le désert des héros : récits de vies solitaires dans les séries américaines de fiction
title_fullStr Le désert des héros : récits de vies solitaires dans les séries américaines de fiction
title_full_unstemmed Le désert des héros : récits de vies solitaires dans les séries américaines de fiction
title_short Le désert des héros : récits de vies solitaires dans les séries américaines de fiction
title_sort le desert des heros recits de vies solitaires dans les series americaines de fiction
topic TV shows
solitude
everyday
evil
modernity
identification
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