Narratizing History: An Interdisciplinar Approach Applied to Televised Storytelling

Abstract

Is it possible to transmit historical content while competing during prime time and on a television channel directed to a general audience? Is it also possible to attract the attention of a grass-roots audience? This critical commentary establishes different keys, both theoretical and methodological, for assessing the television program known as Algo habrán hecho (They Must Have Done Something Right) (on Argentine history).The authors believe this format brings together the main features of contemporary television: hybridization of genre, syncretism between reality and fiction, fragmentation, and innovation in forms of didactic representation of the past. Based on these core elements, this article proposes an interdisciplinary interpretive perspective of a narrative and historical nature.