“Hangin' in the Tremé / Watchin' people sashay”. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
As a city portrait, David Simon and Eric Overmeyer’s television series Treme (2010-2013) shows relatively little of the geography of the city of New Orleans itself. Instead, it tries to draw a portrait of a community, a collective portrait that, on the one hand, tries to express the resilience of the city after the catastrophe of Hurricane Katrina (2005) and, on the other hand, the authenticity and créolité that distinguishes New Orleans from ...