When criticism meets TV: a cultural approach to the analysis of television criticism

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Fernanda Mauricio
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista FAMECOS: Mídia cultura e tecnologia
• Texto Completo: https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/ojs/index.php/revistafamecos/article/view/22177
• topic: Criticism; Television studies; Cultural studies; Television studies; Crítica; Estudios de televisión; Cultural studies; Crítica televisiva; Crítica; Estudos de televisão; Cultural studies; Crítica televisiva

What can we learn about television from television criticism? Although television criticism studies are on the rise, such a question is rarely raised. This makes the treatment of criticism an object in itself—instead of a practice that is contiguous with the television field. This paper aims to offer a reflection on television criticism based on the cultural analysis formulated by cultural studies, i.e., treating television criticism as a cultural practice that has its own values and that remains at the intersection of product analysis and the broader social context. Finally, a brief discussion is proposed on how criticism can contribute to television studies, focusing on four aspects: 1) investigating quality as a flexible evaluation framework, 2) understanding how changes in the context interfere in the consumption and production forms, and 3) identifying tensions in the forms of mainstream television; 4) understanding television genres as cultural categories.