Martine Pagé

Dilemme int�ressant du c�t� du blogue d’Antoine � propos de la consommation t�l�visuelle. Le plaisir ultime de la t�l�s�rie, vous le trouvez en DVD ou par petites doses hebdomadaires?

Personnellement j’honore le kamasutra t�l�visuel tel que d�crit par Patrick dans les commentaires chez Antoine: faire durer le plaisir, par petites doses. J’aime avoir des rendez-vous hebdomadaires avec des personnages que j’apprends � conna�tre un peu plus � chaque semaine. En DVD, j’overdose. � force de regarder les �pisodes les uns apr�s les autres, sans prendre de pause, je vois toutes les ficelles narratives, les contradictions des personnages, les tics de r�alisation.

C’est comme se taper le blogue de quelqu’un en entier, d�s la premi�re visite, archives inclues. Boulimie web. Ouf. Un blogue se savoure quotidiennement, avec mod�ration, comme une bon petit morceau de chocolat noir.

Ceci �tant dit, quand je n’ai pas le choix, j’appr�cie de regarder une s�rie t�l� sur DVD. J’attends d’ailleurs avec impatience la sortie de la saison 3 de Six Feet Under, pr�vue pour le mois de mai. Une autre raison d’avoir h�te au printemps.

We’ve come a long way, but there’s still a lot of work to do:

–Why are women directors such a rare sight?

-Kirstie Alley is considered too fat to get a job in Hollywood, so she created her own show. It’s called Fat Actress, and the pilot is available on Yahoo TV. There’s something a bit pathetic about this « unscripted comedy » but hey, Larry David in Curb Your Enthusiasm was also pathetic, in his own way.

At a time when street gangs warn informers with DVD productions about the fate of « snitches » and both terrorists and their adversaries routinely communicate in elaborately staged videos, it is not altogether surprising that film school – promoted as a shot at an entertainment industry job – is beginning to attract those who believe that cinema isn’t so much a profession as the professional language of the future.

At the University of Southern California, whose School of Cinema-Television is the nation’s oldest film school (established in 1929), fully half of the university’s 16,500 undergraduate students take at least one cinema/television class. That is possible because Elizabeth Daley, the school’s dean, opened its classes to the university at large in 1998, in keeping with a new philosophy that says, in effect, filmic skills are too valuable to be confined to movie world professionals. « The greatest digital divide is between those who can read and write with media, and those who can’t, » Ms. Daley said. « Our core knowledge needs to belong to everybody. »

From The New York Times.