Au-delà et à côté de la Quality TV : une alternative esthétique brésilienne
This research seeks to analyse the rise and the evolution of the concept of quality within the Brazilian context, to include Brazilian television fiction amongst quality television products. Covering the history of Brazilian television dramas from tele-theatres to the microseries directed by Luiz Fernando Carvalho, and in particular the serie Capitu (2008), we suggest that the fictional production in Brazil has reached a very sophisticated and forward-thinking quality level, illustrating an alternative to the aesthetics of American TV series, also known as Quality TV. Furthermore, the sophistication of this microseries contributes to legitimize the artistic value of television by taking into consideration its own formal characteristics, which are different from American fictional production whose cinematographic style ends up discrediting the qualities of the small screen. At last, we would like to demonstrate the importance of Capitu’s aesthetic innovations within a media-sphere which seems to evolve gradually and quickly towards a standardisation of the televisual language and its content.
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