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When fiction screenwriters write politics
Culture · Tuesday, November 17 · 20:00 · Paris
Théâtre de la Concorde, 1 Avenue Gabriel
Free
Every evening, millions of French people watch television fictions, making them one of the most powerful cultural forms of making the common good. Yet politics remains one of the great blind spots of French fiction. Television fictions play an important role in our way of understanding the political arena. From Baron Noir to The West Wing, political fiction forms a space where democracy can be told differently. It allows exploring the mechanisms of power, the relationships between political leaders, the institutions e…
