Open AccessThe Iron Age looks at Rome for the first time in audiovisuals: fiction, cultural imaginary and historical reality in Barbarians and Britannia
Author(s) -
Manuel Gago Mariño,
Jesús García Sánchez
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
ex novo
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2531-8810
DOI - 10.32028/vol6isspp187-197
Subject(s) - the imaginary , representation (politics) , indigenous , perspective (graphical) , history , space (punctuation) , literature , art , visual arts , politics , law , political science , psychology , linguistics , philosophy , ecology , biology , psychotherapist
Two recent fiction series produced for video-on-demand (VOD) platforms show the conflict between the Roman Empire and indigenous peoples from the perspective of the latter for the first time. Thus, transforming the traditional Roman historical genre into a more diverse and multifocal space. But, in Barbarians and Britannia this new audiovisual optic manages the representation of this historical reality in completely opposite ways.