Call for papers
International conference : September 12 – September 14, 2012 in Paris.
Organized by the CEISME (Media Images and Sounds Study Center), Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris3, with the support of the Laboratoire d’Excellence ICCA (Laboratory of Excellence for Cultural Industry and Artistic Creations) and Inathèque de France.
What is quality television?
When it comes to television, we talk a lot about the audience, as if quantification was the only measurement unit for programs. However, public satisfaction is not correlated numerical results. TV channels know this and, since 1975, the French public service is trying to develop “indicators” of quality.
The question of evaluation has thus returned to all areas. It has been revived by the recent developments of formats – both in the United States, where the success of TV series has led to the concept of “Quality TV”, as well as in South America and Europe, as the 2011 Obitel study on “calidad de la ficcíon televisiva” has demonstrated. Moreover, public service reforms in France and Portugal have engendered a whole new body of thought.
Of course defining the criteria for characterizing the quality of a program engenders difficulties – especially since producers, broadcasters, authors, but also the audience, do not necessarily share the same. Several points should be examined:
Escrever uma nova biografia de Barthes não faria sentido depois dos esforços de Jean-Louis Calvet. Explicar suas obras de forma didática já foi uma tarefa executada por Michael Moriarty e Jonathan Culler. Assim, uma biografia intelectual que explicasse Barthes por meio de sua obra foi o caminho escolhido por Leda Tenório, sua aluna na École des Hautes Études e, depois, uma entre centenas de interessados que se aglomeraram na porta do Collège de France para assistir ao seminário Proust e a Fotografia, interrompido com a morte do escritor, em 25 de março de 1980. A professora analisou cuidadosamente cada uma das 5.500 páginas em papel-bíblia que integram sua obra completa (ou quase) publicada pela francesa Éditions du Seuil, antes de se lançar à empreitada.
