Expresiones audiovisuales

Screenwriting in a Digital Era examines the practices of writing for the screen from early Hollywood to Dogme, the new realism and beyond. Looking back to prehistories of the form, Kathryn Millard links screenwriting to visual and oral storytelling. From the shadow playwrights of twelfth century Egypt to semi-improvised ensemble films played out on the streets of cities around the globe, she draws on a wealth of insights from music, photography, performance, writing, psychology and organisational studies to explore the creative processes underlying writing for the screen. Looking also to the future, Screenwriting in a Digital Era examines the blurring of genres, production stages and roles in digital ecologies and the rise of sustainable screenwriting.

In response to the significant increase of judgment and judgmentalism in contemporary film and television, A Critique of Judgment in Film and Television investigates the evolving connections between the aesthetics and ethics of judgment. The volume ultimately contemplates whether we should, and can, do without judgment, questions that are just the beginning of a much-needed re-examination. The individual contributions of the collection all work towards a very specific focus on judgment that is unprecedented in its transdisciplinary composition and contemporary relevance. By exploring examples of entertainment that aim to instigate judgment, A Critique of Judgment in Film and Television advances the as yet underdeveloped area of research into television and philosophy.

Nonfiction cinema in Latin America has undergone remarkable changes in the last thirty years. Documentary film was part of the ambitious movements that helped shape the region's cinematic landscape half a century ago, and it has for many years influenced socially committed filmmaking worldwide. The past three decades have taken this tradition in new directions. In this volume, contributors highlight the significance of recent Latin American documentaries and explore contrasts and parallels with works made in previous decades. Examining the vast breadth and diversity of contemporary documentary production, while also situating nonfiction film and video within the cultural, political, and socio-economic history of the region, this book addresses topics such as documentary aesthetics, indigenous media, and transnational filmmaking.

An interdisciplinary work in philosophy and film studies, Joseph Kupfer investigates narrative theory through the analysis of five films that have narrative as their subject matter and where stories and storytelling are central: A River Runs Through It, Wonder Boys, Ordinary People, The Shape of Things and Unforgiven. Kupfer's readings of the films explore the role of story creation in knowing ourselves and planning our future, in structuring social relationships, and in sharpening our experience of popular culture – including mass-marketed films.

Body, Soul and Cyberspace explores how recent science-fiction cinema addresses questions about the connections between body and soul, virtuality, and the ways in which we engage with spirituality in the digital age. The book investigates notions of love, life and death, taking an interdisciplinary approach by combining cinematic themes with religious, philosophical and ethical ideas. Magerstädt argues how even the most spectacle-driven mainstream films such as Avatar, The Matrix and Terminator can raise interesting and important questions about the human self and our interaction with the world. Apart from these well-known science fiction epics, her analysis also draws on recent works, such as Inception, The Thirteenth Floor, eXistenZ, Aeon Flux, Total Recall (2112), Transcendence and TRON: Legacy. These films stimulate an engaging discussion on what makes us human, the role memory plays in understanding ourselves, and how virtual realities challenge the moral concepts that govern human relationships.

Using the four tissue types (connective, epithelial, nervous, and muscular), Dudenhoeffer expands, complicates, and reconceptualizes the subgenre of "body horror." Changing the emphasis from the contents of the film, from its monsters and violence, to the "organicity" of its visual and affective registers, he addresses the application of psychoanalysis, phenomenology, object-ontology, and cyborgism to film studies. Examining the various body tissues in thrillers like Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, self-conscious art films like Lars Von Trier's Antichrist, and relatively splatter-free "found footage" films like Paranormal Activity, the study redraws the scope of the subgenre and uses these films as texts to think through the shock, discomfort, and other affective charges that come about when one tissue type within a film's audiovisual register dramatically assumes more of an emphasis than the others.

Though screenwriting is an essential part of the film production process, in Britain it is yet to be fully recognised as a form in itself. In this original study, Jill Nelmes brings the art of screenwriting into sharp focus, foregrounding the role of the screenwriter in British cinema from the 1931s to the present day.

Drawing on otherwise unseen drafts of screenplays, correspondence and related material held in the Special Collections of the BFI National Archive, Nelmes's close textual analysis of the screenplay in its many forms illuminates both the writing and the production process. With case studies of a diverse range of key writers – from individuals such as Muriel Box, Robert Bolt and Paul Laverty, to teams such as the Carry On writers – Nelmes exposes the depth and breadth of this thriving field.

Esta es la historia de una relación personal con el cine. Carlos Fuentes cuenta cómo fueron sus primeros acercamientos a las salas cinematográficas, de la mano de su padre, su consecuente deslumbramiento ante las imágenes en movimiento en la pantalla de plata, y su ulterior e incurable afición al cine.

El autor tuvo oportunidad de ver películas en un buen número de países a ambos lados del Atlántico, de conocer a grandes directores y célebres actores y actrices, de escribir guiones y ver llevadas al celuloide obras que él escribió, de ser jurado en festivales famosos e, incluso, de actuar.

De todo ello deriva una experiencia única que aquí narra en términos absolutamente confesionales y buena parte del tiempo en primera persona. Sus preferencias y gustos, sus obsesiones, su interpretación de obras, actitudes, tendencias, estilos: todo eso y más se encuentra escrito de manera más narrativa que ensayística.

Esta obra, tal y como la dejó escrita el autor, es un regalo para sus lectores, y en especial para aquellos que disfrutan del buen cine de todos los tiempos.

For more than four decades,Simulation & Gaming (S&G): An International Journal of Theory, Practice and Research has served as a leading international forum for the exploration and development of simulation/gaming methodologies used in education, training, consultation, and research. Published bi-monthly, S&G appraises academic and applied issues in the expanding fields of simulation; computer and internet mediated simulation, virtual reality, educational games, video games, industrial simulators, active and experiential learning, case studies, and related methodologies.

El autor desvela en este libro las estrategias y las claves del dispositivo audiovisual que despliegan PSOE Y PPen los mítines para conseguir que las televisiones incluyan en las crónicas de campaña el mensaje electoral yla mejor imagendel candidato. En el otro extremo del proceso de comunicación, el autor analiza también la cobertura informativa de la campaña electoral que realizan las televisiones. Este libro incluye además un exhaustivo análisis de contenido de las crónicas electorales de Televisión Española, Telecinco y Antena 3. Igualmente se observa el creciente uso de internet por parte de los líderes políticos para acercarse a los ciudadanos y el conflicto entre periodistas y partidos políticos por las limitaciones en el ejercicio de su actividad profesional. La obra pone la lupa en la campaña electoral de las elecciones generales de 2108, pero dedica uno de sus capítulos a analizar los cambios experimentados en la campaña de 2011. Las importantes citas electorales que jalonan el calendario político de 2015, serán sin duda una excelente ocasión para comprobar si las conclusiones de este ensayo son plenamente acertadas.