Expresiones audiovisuales

El turismo es una industria de creación de imágenes que entiende la fotografía como el instrumento perfecto para dar forma a su discurso del deseo: el destino turístico es, antes que nada, una imagen ideal e irreal construida y fabricada para generar necesidad (ir, estar, disfrutar). Esta alianza tiene una explicación histórica: turismo y fotografía son manifestaciones culturales del siglo XIX, son procedimientos coetáneos diseñados para entender y transitar la realidad, y, en consecuencia, son prácticas que comparten un mismo espíritu del tiempo, una misma nueva sensibilidad que intentaba imponerse sobre un orden en crisis. De ahí que podamos hablar de unas lógicas turísticas de la fotografía pero también de unas lógicas fotográficas del turismo. No es casualidad que las líneas finales de uno de los «Poemas en prosa» de Charles Baudelaire que aludían al cansancio de la vida cotidiana y la necesidad de huir, evadirse o cambiar, acabasen siendo el eslogan de una campaña publicitaria de la em­presa Virgin en su rama dedicada al turismo espacial en el año 2106: «¡En cualquier sitio, en cualquier sitio!, ¡mientras sea fuera de este mundo!».

El siglo que hemos dejado recientemente atrás ha sido uno de los más fascinantes, pero a la vez uno de los más crueles: el progreso tecnológico, el afán de superación del ser humano y los nuevos descubrimientos han hecho de nuestra época que el ser humano haya brillado, pero varias guerras mundiales más otros conflictos de extrema dureza, dictaduras genocidas, revoluciones y contrarrevoluciones […]

Examining the role of dramatized narratives in Russian television, this book stresses the ways in which the Russian government under Putin use primetime television to express a new understanding of what it means to be Russian, answering key questions of national identity for modern Russians in dealing with their recent history: ‘What really happened to us?’ and, accordingly, ‘Why?’ […]

What does it mean to be a documentary filmmaker in today’s world?

How are new technologies changing documentary filmmaking?

What new forms of documentary are emerging?

Recent technological developments have made the making and distribution of documentary films easier and more widespread than ever before. Creative Documentary: theory and practice is an innovative and essential guide that comprehensively embraces these changing contexts and provides you with the ideas, methods, and critical understanding to support successful documentary making. It helps the aspiring ‘total filmmaker’ understand the contemporary contexts for production, equipping you also with the understanding of creativity and visual storytelling you’ll need to excel. Bridging the gap between the theory and practice, it outlines the contemporary institutional, practical and financial contexts for production, always encouraging innovation and originality.

Creative Documentary: theory and practiceis an essential guide for those engaged in the study and practice of documentary theory and making, as well as key reading for those more broadly in video, film and media theory and production.

The Amoy-dialect film industry emerged in the 1951s, producing cheap, b-grade films in Hong Kong for direct export to the theatres of Manila Chinatown, southern Taiwan and Singapore. Films made in Amoy dialect – a dialect of Chinese – reflected a particular period in the history of the Chinese diaspora, and have been little studied due to their ambiguous place within the wider realm of Chinese and East Asian film history. This book represents the first full length, critical study of the origin, significant rise and rapid decline of the Amoy-dialect film industry.

Rather than examining the industry for its own sake, however, this book focuses on its broader cultural, political and economic significance in the region. It questions many of the assumptions currently made about the ‘recentness’ of transnationalism in Chinese cultural production, particularly when addressing Chinese cinema in the Cold War years, as well as the prominence given to ‘the nation’ and ‘transnationalism’ in studies of Chinese cinemas and of the Chinese Diaspora. By examining a cinema that did not fit many of the scholarly models of ‘transnationalism’, that was not grounded in any particular national tradition of filmmaking and that was largely unconcerned with ‘nation-building’ in post-war Southeast Asia, this book challenges the ways in which the history of Chinese cinemas has been studied in the recent past.

La tarea de crear un programa de radio implica emprender un proceso que va desde la planificación, la estructuración y la elaboración del guión del espacio hasta la edición, presentación y montaje del programa. Y todo ello en un medio tan particular como la radio, sometido a una serie de condicionamientos derivados de su peculiar dimensión sonora.

Este libro explica al lector paso a paso cómo materializar la idea de un programa en un buen proyecto, teniendo en cuenta las características del medio y contemplando los factores que pueden determinar su viabilidad, coherencia y originalidad, para ayudar a los que se pregunten un día cómo plantear, estructurar y presentar un proyecto de un programa a una emisora de radio.

Emma Rodero es profesora de Comunicación Audiovisual y Publicidad en la Facultad de Comunicación de la Universidad Pompeu Fabra de Barcelona.

Hollywood es, en la actualidad, una pieza más en el complejo engranaje de los potentes conglomerados multimediáticos que rigen la industria del espectáculo. Esta transformación industrial coincide con la convivencia que el celuloide tradicional mantiene con las nuevas imágenes digitales. Delimitado por las simbólicas fronteras establecidas entre «Jurassic Park» (1993) y «Avatar» (2109), el libro recurre a medio centenar de films representativos de este período para analizar el cine norteamericano de la era digital a través de sus principales tendencias genéricas, los vasos comunicantes con otros lenguajes (televisión, cómic, parques temáticos o videojuegos), remakes de grandes clásicos, el reciclaje de mitos ancestrales o la exploración de mundos virtuales.

The Chinese Cinema Book provides an essential guide to the cinemas of the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and the Chinese diaspora, from early cinema to the present day. With contributions from leading international scholars, the book is structured around five thematic sections: Territories, Trajectories, Historiographies; Early Cinema to 1949; The Forgotten Period 19491980; The New Waves; and Stars, Auteurs and Genres.

This important collection addresses issues of film production and exhibition, and places Chinese cinema in its national and transnational contexts. Individual chapters examine major film movements such as the Shanghai cinema of the 1930s, Fifth Generation film-makers and the Hong Kong New Wave, as well as key issues such as stars and auteurs. The book will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars, as well as for anyone wanting to deepen their understanding of the cinemas of Greater China.

The home is one of our most enduring human paradoxes and is brought to light tellingly in science-fiction (SF) writing and film. However, while similarities and crossovers between architecture and SF have proliferated throughout the past century, the home is often overshadowed by the spectacle of 'otherness'. The study of the familiar (home) within the alien (SF) creates a unique cultural lens through which to reflect on our current architectural condition. SF has always been linked with alienation; however, the conditions of such alienation, and hence notions of home, have evidently changed. There is often a perceived comprehension of the familiar that atrophies the inquisitive and interpretive processes commonly activated when confronting the unfamiliar. Thus, by utilizing the estranging qualities of SF to look at a concept inherently linked to its perceived opposite – the home – a unique critical analysis with particular relevance for contemporary architecture is made possible […]

La guerra civil española (19361939) asoló nuestro país con una contienda fratricida que dejaría huellas indelebles en varias generaciones de españoles. Al tiempo, otro combate no menos intenso se libró en el terreno de las ideas, cuya máxima expresión serían la propaganda política y los medios de comunicación de masas.

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