Iconographies of the present. Political populism, economic instability and migratory crisis in «Years and Years» (BBC and HBO, 2019)

In its six episodes, the British series Years and (2019) calls on images that resonate in collective imagination of contemporary media, although some them have their roots visual motifs with a strong tradition Western culture. this article, we attempt to identify these images, representing political conflicts, social tensions, ecological disasters, economic uncertainties end 2010s beginning 2020s, analyse transfer from media television fiction. Among references other analysed are realm photography appearing press and, for example, at prestigious World Press Photo event. But an earlier pictorial cinematographic shows survival Years, interweaving public sphere Methodologically, draw image theory, including legacy Aby Warburg Walter Benjamin, textual analysis rooted semiotics. The crystallise around unease humanitarian disasters unleashed by migratory crises, banalisation politics threat authoritarian populism stylisation war. They include allegory freedom representations popular revolt hard times.