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Two hundred years later, the French Revolution lives on on our screens in films, docu-dramas, TV series and video games. Representations of the past are part of an iconographic and fictional tradition that can be traced back. In fact, there are contemporary mythologies of the Revolution in the forms, motifs and current discourse that authors project onto this period. In return, these fictions feed a social imagination that clashes with the work of historians.We therefore propose to use contemporary mythologies to conduct a genealogy of the image. More specifically, we will take a look at the TV series La Révolution (Molas and Guasti, Netflix, 2020) to understand the artistic and cultural roots of this work. The series recounts the fantastical origins of the Revolution, which is said to have been caused by a virus called “Sang bleu”, spread by aristocratic vampires. The French series is said to be the transposition of a Japanese manga into a revolutionary background. To grasp all the authors' inspirations, we will draw on design sources such as interviews and reviews.In this way, we want to show that La Révolution is an adaptation of literary motifs that appeared at the end of the eighteenth century, on which other, more recent inspirations have been superimposed. The series is not a new script, but part of an old, ideologically-oriented fictional tradition. We will use contemporary mythologies of the French Revolution (violence, fascination with the guillotine, eschatological iconography, teleologism) to carry out this genealogy.
Keywords: Révolution française, French Revolution, Cinema, Cinéma, Télévision, Television, Imaginaires, Imaginary, Fiction, Fictions, Mythologies, Mythology
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