Cinéma et séries télévisées : un souci commun d’analyse esthétique

Abstract

The relationship between cinema and television series is often conflictual. Considering that they freeze the aesthetic and narrative model of classical cinema, Jacques Aumont stigmatizes the disempowerment of editing attributable to TV series, systematically written with the audience’s reactions in mind. Stéphane Delorme’s commentary adds nuance to this state of affairs when he describes his desire to make a distinction between films and TV series that still speak the language of cinema, and films and TV series that are just storytelling. This perspective opens up the possibility of a dialectic, of sharing knowledge and practices between cinema and TV series, even though the path traced seems only one-way street (from cinema to series) without considering the opposite path. The objective of this article is precisely to study the reciprocal influence between TV series and cinema. It is based on the filmic analysis of a scene from a TV series; then it explores the other side of this approach by questioning the way in which cinema can be rethought through TV series. What if the survival of cinema resided in TV series, with the operation not being reduced to an inheritance where only memory would serve as a site of exchange?

Keywords

• cinema
• pattern
• analysis
• aesthetics
• storytelling