32 - L’attentat, du tyrannicide au terrorisme
Héloïse Boudon
When soap opera meets television ceremonial events : Plus belle la vie’s tribute to victims of terrorist attacks
Le Temps des médias n° 32, Printemps 2019, p. 170-183.On the 13th of January 2015, the French daily soap opera Plus belle la vie inserts at the beginning of its episode an additional scene about Charlie Hebdo’s terrorist attack. Then, the show repeats this initiative after Paris and Brussels’ attacks on a most reactive way. On one hand, this article interrogates the evolution of the scenes and on the other hand, it enlights the particular potentials of a fiction in these circumstances.
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