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Documenting the indignation: Responses to the 2008 financial crisis in contemporary Spanish cinema
2017
ABSTRACTThe aim of this article is to analyze two Spanish documentary films that reflect on the 2008 financial crisis in Spain, Mercado de futuros (Mercedes Alvarez, 2011) and No estamos solos (Pere Joan Ventura, 2015). These movies could be marked as political for their choice of a collective protagonist and for dealing with the issues of inequality with the purpose of appealing to mobilization and resistance to the neoliberal Western agenda that have provoked social cutbacks after the 2008 crisis. Mercedes Alvarez and Pere Joan Ventura follow the tradition of political documentaries traced by filmmakers such as Dziga Vertov, Joris Ivens, Pere Portabella, and Basilio Martin Patino and open…
El Derecho visto por Berlanga | The Law seen by Berlanga
2019
Resumen: El cine de Luis García Berlanga habla del Derecho, del que ofrece una visión cómica y crítica a la vez. La pena de muerte, la reivindicación de la libertad, la censura a la autoridad, el machismo y la corrupción son los tópicos jurídicos berlanguianos.
 Abstract: The cinema of Luis García Berlanga talks of Law, of which he offers a comical and critical vision at the same time. The death penalty, the vindication of freedom, censorship of authority, sexism and corruption are the Berlanguan legal topics.
Cine, vida y derecho. Palabras en recuerdo de Mario Ruiz | Cinema, Life and Law. Some Words in Remembrance of Mario Ruiz
2019
espanolCine, vida y derecho. Palabras en recuerdo de Mario Ruiz EnglishCinema, Life and Law.Some Wordsin Remembrance of Mario Ruiz
Derecho y cine. Entre la filosofía y la pedagogía. En reconocimiento a Mario Ruiz | Law and Cinema, Between Philosophy and Pedagogy. In Recognition o…
2019
Resumen: Intervenciones en los homenajes a nuestro compañero Mario en Valencia y Valladolid
 Abstract: Interventions in tribute to our partner Mario held in Valencia and Valladolid
The big picture: effects of surround on immersion and size perception.
2014
Despite the fear of the entertainment industry that illegal downloads of films might ruin their business, going to the movies continues to be a popular leisure activity. One reason why people prefer to watch movies in cinemas may be the surround of the movie screen or its physically huge size. To disentangle the factors that might contribute to the size impression, we tested several measures of subjective size and immersion in different viewing environments. For this purpose we built a model cinema that provided visual angle information comparable with that of a real cinema. Subjects watched identical movie clips in a real cinema, a model cinema, and on a display monitor in isolation. Wher…
Horror movies post 9/11: delineating tourism in a context of certainty
2014
In recent years, specialized literature has devoted much attention to the narratives of cinema and destination attractiveness. International cinema projects of the calibre of the Lord of the Rings ...
Guest Editorial Three-Dimensional Displays and Visualization
2010
THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) imaging and display is a natural concept for humans as it is a common vision attribute of our binocular vision, perception, and brain processing. However, until recently, our experiences have been mainly limited to the technologically inferior two-dimensional (2D) as evidenced from widespread use of 2D photography, cinema, and liquid crystal or LED-display for television, computer displays, etc.
The Perpetrator's mise-en-scene: Language, Body, and Memory in the Cambodian Genocide
2018
Rithy Panh's film S-21. The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (2003) was the result of a three-year shooting period in the Khmer Rouge centre of torture where perpetrators and victims exchanged experiences and re-enacted scenes from the past under the gaze of the filmmaker's camera. Yet, a crucial testimony was missing in that puzzle: the voice of the prison's director, Kaing Guek Eav, comrade Duch. When the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) were finally established in Phnom Penh to judge the master criminals of Democratic Kampuchea, the first to be indicted was this desk criminal. The film Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell (R. Panh, 2011) deploys a new confrontation – an a…
Reviews
2004
African Film: Re‐Imagining a Continent Josef Gugler James Currey, Oxford, 2003, pb 216pp ISBN 085255561X £14 Revolution: The Explosion of World Cinema in the Sixties Peter Cowie Faber, London, 2004, hb 304pp ISBN 05712 09033 £20.00 www.faber.co.uk Sembene: Imagining Alternatives in Film and Fiction David Murphy James Currey, Oxford and Africa World Press, Trenton, 2001, pb 275 pp ISBN 0 8525 5555 5 £14.95 www.jamescurrey.co.uk Films by Michael Ondaatje (115 min); including: The Clinton Special: A Film About The Farm Show (1974, 71 min) Sons of Captain Poetry (1970, 29 min) Carry on Crime and Punishment (1970, 5 min) Available as a DVD or video from www.mongrelmedia.com Yilmaz Guney: Bir Cir…
(De)constructing “America”: the Case of Emir Kusturica’s Arizona Dream (1993)
2010
By means of an analysis of Kusturica’s only film about America, Arizona Dream, this article argues that while the United States offers a vision of a united society founded on diversity, it also represses, altering in the process both society and the landscape. National unity is consequently a dream – a dream the film suggests that has often been dreamed up by un-Americans. Filtered through Kusturica’s own perceptions of America – and his position on the Balkan War (1991-2001) – the film seems to suggest sadness at the loss of a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural perspective. Through its representations of geography and ethnic diversity, and its dense network of filmic citations, what Arizona Drea…