Convergence médiatique ou champ cinématographique élargi. Ce que les séries télévisées font à la discipline des « études filmiques »

Abstract

This article examines the epistemological value of an intermedial approach to TV series: should TV series be associated to the discipline of film studies? Without taking the notion of the “cinematic” for granted, and without limiting the use of this adjective to mere cultural legitimation, the article briefly explores how TV series connect to the discipline of “film studies”, and how this can lead us, in a mutating, unstable cultural and media context, to reconsider the logic of our disciplinary structures, at the university as well as, more generally, in our imagination. After a brief overview of the history of the disciplines of film and television studies, the emphasis is placed on the joint evolution of technology, media landscape and academic disciplines.

Keywords

• post-television
• post-cinema
• media convergence
• film studies
• television studies