Le DVD comme vecteur d’une culture du chapitre en contexte médiatique

Abstract

This article aims to outline a reflexion for a study of the use of chaptering in the field of DVD film publishing, a medium that is now in decline but that has introduced and popularized a radical change from the continuous viewing required before by VHS. Chaptering, which guides the reading of the film in the case of re-visioning, can be more or less valued and presented in different ways by the publishers, with effects that are discussed here taking into account the fundamental discontinuity of the film medium. A comparative approach is promoted by envisaging the splitting of a DVD into chapters according to the possible explicit segmentation of the film in parts, or even to the chapters of the novel of which the film is an adaptation. Like the layers of the support, we can observe how these different chapter configurations coexist in some cases in a form of palimpsest.

Keywords

• chapter
• cinema
• DVD (publishing)
• film editing
• narration
• interactivity