Libros

Game & Play ofrece una síntesis del alcance cultural y social del juego (game) y de la actividad de jugar (play) para después adentrarse en el conocimiento pormenorizado sobre el jugador, las mecánicas de juego y el mundo ficcional del juego digital. En este volumen el lector encontrará propuestas y discusiones que le permitan entender la diversidad de tipologías de jugadores y experiencias de juego, las características formales de la estructura lúdica, las mecánicas de juego, la estructura narrativa y, finalmente, una propuesta que indaga en los límites del contexto lúdico de la mano de los serious games o la gamificación. El creciente flujo de juegos digitales, de plataformas, de usos, de mercados y de nuevos entornos y competencias profesionales justifica y requiere propuestas rigurosas que, como Game & Play, analicen el juego digital examinando todas sus dimensiones.

Audiovisual Translation in a Global Context offers an up-to-date survey of the field of Audiovisual Translation (AVT). One of the main aims of the book is to document the changes taking place in this thriving discipline, by focusing not only on current projects and research being carried out in AVT but also on the professional practice in a wide range of contexts. The contributors to the collection cover a wide array of topics from subtitling, dubbing, and voiceover, to media accessibility practices like sign language, subtitling for the deaf and hard of hearing, and audio description for the blind and visually impaired. In an accessible and engaging manner, the chapters discuss theoretical issues in close relation to real translation problems and empirical data, providing useful and practical insights into the personalised input that translators inevitably give to their work.

Bridging the divide between humanities and social sciences, Therapy and Emotions in Film and Television: The Pulse of Our Times represents a unique collection of interdisciplinary reflections upon the emotional cultures of contemporary societies. The book contains chapters by leading historians of emotions, scholars in film and television studies, and a pioneering scholar in aging research. The collection opens up questions upon the characteristic features of our 'emotional regimes' and demonstrates possible ways of using films, emotions and therapy as a tool both to shed new light on our emotional realities, identities and sensitivities in their historically contingent frame and to understand their shifting nature. Thus, the collection offers a fresh, insightful look at emotions and society across disciplines from the early years of the twentieth century to the present.