Expresiones audiovisuales

Modern views of the First World War have long been shaped by literature, film and television. However, the interactive nature of computer games is changing how such events are portrayed. The First World War in Computer Games examines analyses the world of combat and what it means for a player to be a soldier or a general in the First World War. It also examines the depiction and landscape of the trenches, and concepts of how the war ended and what it was for. Most importantly it investigates the different stories that computer games tell about the war, where these stories came from, and how they are shaped by wider social and historical knowledge. This book shows how computer games are at the forefront of new representations of the war.

Melodrama manipulates us to feel deeply about the structures that ground our experience of the world: our bodies, the family, the home, and the nation. For this reason, melodrama is a narrative and aesthetic form employed to sustain the national imagination. Globalization is a phenomenon that has profoundly changed how we live and connect to others, transforming our spatio-temporal parameters. Global Melodrama analyzes the ways in which melodrama addresses this new geopolitical reality and examines how contemporary films ask us to rethink how we organize, and tell stories about, our sense of identity and community. Through case-studies and close readings of films that emerge from different national and aesthetic traditions, Carla Marcantonio demonstrates how global melodramas, far from championing the borderless landscape that the term "global" might index, map new temporal, spatial, and embodied territories.

The 1951s saw perhaps the largest number of American films set on and around the US-Mexico border of any period of the twentieth century. Many of these films engaged with Cold War politics as they explored the relationship between the US and Mexico through ideas of romance, revolution, and regulation. With an analysis of Cold War era films including Border Incident, Where Danger Lives, and Touch of Evil, Stephanie Fuller illustrates how cinema across genres developed an understanding of what the US-Mexico border meant within the American cultural imaginary and the ways in which it worked to produce the border. Fuller illustrates how a particular cinematic location provides a new way of investigating cultural politics.

Media depictions of community are enormously influential on wider popular opinion about how people would like to live. In this study, Stephen Rowley examines depictions of ideal communities in Hollywood films and television and explores the implications of attempts to build real-world counterparts to such imagined places. He focuses on the ideals of small towns and suburbs featured during and shortly after World War II, tracking how these were an inspiration for post-World War II suburban development.

Exploration, intertwined with home-seeking, has always defined America. Geographic variation and a mobile populace have meant that America is always searching for a home, yet in love with travel. Here, Corbin argues that a wide swath of films about significant cultural landscapes in America evoke a sense of travel for their viewers, just by going to the movie theatre. She considers the dialectic between the thrill of seeing an "other" place and the security of being in a "familiar" place. The sum total of these virtual travel experiences from the mid1970s through the 1990s built a societal map of "popular multiculturalism" – of various landscapes in relation to each other – through a movie going experience that combined middlebrow entertainment with moderate-to-liberal politics.

Amb els anys, Edgar Neville ha anat recuperant merescudament el lloc rellevant que mereix en la cinematografia espanyola gràcies a títols imprescindibles com ara "La torre de los siete jorobados", "Domingo de carnaval" o "La vida en un hilo" entre d’altres.

La televisión de toda la vida no ha muerto, a pesar de las prisas de muchos por enterrarla. y en estas circunstancias resulta difícil aventurar qué características concretas tendrá el audiovisual del futuro. Sin embargo y, al mismo tiempo, sí es posible observar las manifestaciones más llamativas del cambio, puesto que son las que acabarán definiéndolo en poco tiempo. La presente publicación “La televisión conectada en el entorno transmedia” habla de estas cuestiones con un énfasis especial en las narraciones transmediáticas que copan el protagonismo en los universos televisivo y audiovisual, así como sus repercusiones en el proceso creativo y productivo de estos nuevos contenidos audiovisuales que fluyen a través de diversos dispositivos en la multidifusión digital actual.

La locución es una de las disciplinas profesionales en relación a la voz, que en los útlimos tiempos ha cobrado relevancia. Las producciones en Fonoaudiología pocas veecs han atendido las necesidades que la voz locutiva demanda. Ese es el fin de la presente obra.

En el mundo contemporáneo las apariencias han sustituido a la realidad. No obstante, la fotografía, una tecnología históricamente al servicio de la verdad, sigue ejerciendo una función de mecanismo ortopédico de la conciencia moderna: la cámara no miente, toda fotografía es una evidencia. A partir de vivencias personales, el autor crítica esta creencia y reflexiona sobre aspectos fundamentales de la creación y de la cultura actual.

Además de un nuevo diseño, cubierta y encuadernación, esta nueva edición incluye un prefacio del autor, escrito en abril de 2111, en el que explica el origen y gestación de El beso de Judas así como su recorrido hasta hoy.

'This is an innovative collection, based on original research and drawing on different countries and different times, that maps the social meaning of consumerism. It goes beyond the "false consciousness vs. authentic self-expression" debate to say new things about a central feature of contemporary society.' James Curran, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK 'Surveying the field from Essex girls to haute couture fashionistas, and from post-war austerity to postmodern extravagance, this collection opens up an impressive range of perceptive debates on how popular television genres (comedies, dramas, lifestyle shows and beyond) have represented the attractions, contradictions, pleasures and pitfalls of consumer society. This is a volume full of astute insights, thoughtful perspectives and constructive provocations.' Andy Medhurst, University of Sussex, UK