Expresiones audiovisuales

Besides the Screen seeks to make an intervention into film and screen studies by examining and considering the elements of cinematic experience, production and dissemination that exist beside the screen. New media technologies impact cinema well beyond the screen; they also promote the reorganization of its logic of distribution, modes of consumption and viewing regimes. This publication speculates about the changes in modes of accessing, distributing, storing and promoting moving images and how they might affect cinematographic experience, economy and historiography. In doing so, Besides the Screen examines three key themes: distribution, promotion and curation. The volume's main argument is that we must examine those practices that exist besides the screen if we are to consider fully how filmic experience is mediated by various technological and societal changes in the early decades of the twenty-first century.

Television is a massive industry in China, yet fewer people are watching television screens. This ground-breaking study explores how television content is changing, how the Chinese government is responding to the challenges presented by digital media, and how businesses are brokering alliances in both traditional and new media sectors.

In Fantastic Transmedia, writer and academic Colin B Harvey explores the manifold ways in which science fiction and fantasy franchises use transmedial techniques to create complex and involving imaginary worlds. From high profile franchises like Star Wars, Halo and the Marvel Cinematic Universe to far smaller, micro-budgeted indie projects, Harvey explores the ways in which fantastic storyworlds use novels, television shows, films, comic books, videogames, toys and user-generated content to extend and deepen audiences' experiences. Through numerous case studies Harvey identifies story, play and memory as the key mechanisms through which such creators develop, spread, and emotionally engage.

Human rights film festivals have been steadily growing in number in recent years. They are all bound by a common thread, human rights, and yet show distinctly different films. What leads them to be so different, and how is the universalism of human rights made sense by each? This book explores how human rights developed as a language located in history, space and time, and how the festivals continue with this tradition by adapting it for local audiences. The tensions produced by human rights' search for universality and the located-ness of the festivals are explored in detail through two case studies: one located in Buenos Aires, South America; the other in New York, North America, which was the first human rights film festival worldwide.

Curating Africa in the Age of Film Festivals offers the first scholarly exploration of the vital yet controversial role played by film festivals in curating particular versions of Africa, African film, African filmmakers, and African audiences. Drawing on fifteen years of Dovey's work and field research, it takes us on a festive, historical tour, analyzing the curation of Africans at the world fairs, the contemporary curation of African film and African filmmakers at film festivals, and the proliferation of international film festivals across Africa today. Emphasizing the live potential of festivals, the book reveals the complex ways that festivals are co-authored by their organizers and participants, and makes a case for the subjective and contextual nature of aesthetic judgment.

This widely-respected history of British television drama is an indispensable guide to the significant developments in the area; from its beginnings on the BBC in the 1931s and 40s to its position in the twenty-first century, as television enters a multichannel digital era. Embracing the complete spectrum of television drama, Lez Cooke places programmes in their social, political and industrial contexts, and surveys the key dramas, writers, producers and directors.

Thoroughly revised and updated, this second edition includes new images and case studies, new material on British television drama before 1936, an expanded bibliography and a substantial new chapter that explores the renaissance in the quality, variety and social ambition of television drama in Britain since 2002. Comprehensive and accessible, this book will be of value to anyone interested in the rich history of British television and modern drama.

Why does the 1974 war in Cyprus remain so dominant in Greek-Cypriot cinema? How has this event shaped the imagination of contemporary filmmakers, and how might one define the new national cinema that has emerged as a result? This book explores such questions by analysing a range of Greek-Cypriot films that have hitherto received little or no critical discussion.
The book adopts a predominantly conceptual approach, situating contemporary Greek-Cypriot cinema within a specific cultural and national context. Drawing on the work of the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, and particularly his theories of time and space, the author explores ways in which Greek-Cypriot directors invent new forms of imagery as a way of dealing with the crisis of history, the burden of memory and the dislocation of the island’s abandoned spaces.

(Re)thinking Orientalism is a text that examines the visual discourse of Orientalism through the pedagogy of contemporary graphic narratives. Using feminist, critical race, and postcolonial theoretical and pedagogical lenses, the book uses visual discourse analysis and visual semiology to situate the narratives within Islamophobia and neo-Orientalism in the post-9/11 media context. In the absence of mainstream media that tells the complex stories of Muslim Americans and Muslims around the world, there has been a wave of publications of graphic narratives written and drawn from various perspectives that can be used to create curriculum that presents culture, religion, and experience from a multitude of perspectives. The book is an accessible, upper level undergraduate/graduate level text written to give readers insights into toxic xenophobia created through media representation. It provides a theoretical foundation for students to engage in critical analysis and production of visual media.

Existen dos herramientas fundamentales en la vida y la obsesión de cualquier artista: la luz y el color. Este libro no pretende ofrecer solo recetas sobre cómo mezclar los colores ni se limita a describir las técnicas de iluminación. Este libro, eso sí, contesta las preguntas más frecuentes que se hacen los artistas: ¿Qué pasa con los colores del cielo durante la puesta de sol?, ¿cómo varían los colores según la distancia?, ¿cómo conseguimos que una forma parezca tridimensional? Una obra escrita pensando en profesionales del arte de todos los tipos, aquellos interesados en el enfoque realista tradicional y también para los que sienten curiosidad por las estructuras y misterios del mundo visual.Su autor, James Gurney, recurre a su experiencia como pintor al aire libre e ilustrador científico, y comparte rigurosa y abundante información sobre herramientas tan importantes. Manual para artistas tradicionales y digitales de cualquier nivel, esta guía viene a llenar el gran vacío que hay entre la teoría abstracta y el conocimiento práctico. Ya trabaje con pinturas o con píxeles, ya use la realidad o la imaginación, da lo mismo, en ambos casos esta será una de sus inevitables referencias sobre la esencia y los fundamentos de la luz y el color.

En los ultimos años la industria del videojuego se ha convertido en el sector de las industrias creativas que mas beneficios ha procurado, moviendo un volumen de negocio muy superior al resto. Aunque la industria europea se encuentra practicamente ausente del mercado del hardware, cuenta con una larga tradicion de desarroll adores que crearon algunos de los titulos y personajes mas populares de su corta historia. Este libro estudia la produccion europea de videojuegos analizando su situacion actual, tras el repaso de sus origenes y evolucion, para apuntar a futuras tendencias. Dirigido tanto a aficionados al videojuego como a profesionales e investigadores del medio, supone uno de los primeros textos en abordar de forma critica la industria de desarrollo europeo, razon por la que podra ser un referente en posteriores estudios sobre videojuegos