Universul cărţii în filmul serial de televiziune

• Main Author: Alexandru Bohanţov
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Inst. Patrimoniului Cultural (IPC) 2016-10-01
• Series: Arta
• Subjects: book; adaptation; TV series; focus group method; interview guide
• Online Access: http://artjournal.asm.md/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/11.Bohantov.pdf

The book and the TV… Even the simple juxtaposition of these two symbolic entities has triggered multiple discussions and almost all the critiques and reviews have targeted the small screen: that it favors electronic reading, eliminating the fundamental books from the man’s short lifespan ... It is a big and, probably, unsolvable problem. Perhaps it is time to surpass the purist vision of culture, by approaching the book/TV rapport not as an exclusive relationship – one or the other, but as a form which allows alternatives – one and the other. In our age, when TV and new media have turned the cultural space upside down, literature, as a classical form of art, must diversify its strategies used in reaching the public, audiovisual channels included. The prologue of the study evokes a series of literary-artistic formulas through which the book universe appears in a number of audiovisual versions. What follows is the analysis of the possibilities which allow to capitalize the book in the TV series film. The last section is focused on a problem with many variables: is the TV series film a center of interest for the studious youth?