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Watchmen’s Parallax View – Handling Past Traumas and Present Tensions

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Jack Black (2020). ‘Watchmen’s Parallax View – Handling Past Traumas and Present Tensions’. Critical Studies in Television Online, 17 January.

This essay reads HBO’s Watchmen through the idea of parallax, focusing on Angela Abar’s experience of her grandfather’s memories. The series’ shifting view of Hooded Justice brings racial violence and historical erasure into the present, prompting a reconsideration of how television depicts inherited trauma and the relation between past and present.