Watchmen. Historia, ficción y contemporaneidad [Watchmen. History, Fiction and Contemporaneity]

. The television miniseries Watchmen (HBo, 2019) is a particularly complex narrative product. The miniseries is inspired by the graphic novel of the same title by Alan Moore and David Gibbons and was created by writer, producer, and cartoonist Damon Lindelof - known as co-writer and lead writer of the tv series Lost. It looks like a sequel to the Moore and Gibbons comics, and it is, as for the comics, a sci-fi uchronia. The interesting thing is that the focus of the narrative of the miniseries is based on a historical event, which really happened even if for a long time hidden, called The Tulsa Massacre (May 31- June 1, 1921). The miniseries starts from a historical reconstruction of those events, and everything that happens to the protagonists is linked and traceable to them. This television product, apparently attributable to the science fiction and comics genre of superheroes, actually proposes a reflection that tries to connect the past, a real historical event, to the present, to ...

The television miniseries Watchmen (HBo, 2019) is a particularly complex narrative product. The miniseries is inspired by the graphic novel of the same title by Alan Moore and David Gibbons and was created by writer, producer, and cartoonist Damon Lindelof - known as co-writer and lead writer of the tv series Lost. It looks like a sequel to the Moore and Gibbons comics, and it is, as for the comics, a sci-fi uchronia. The interesting thing is that the focus of the narrative of the miniseries is based on a historical event, which really happened even if for a long time hidden, called The Tulsa Massacre (May 31- June 1, 1921). The miniseries starts from a historical reconstruction of those events, and everything that happens to the protagonists is linked and traceable to them. This television product, apparently attributable to the science fiction and comics genre of superheroes, actually proposes a reflection that tries to connect the past, a real historical event, to the present, to the racial problems that cross the United States.