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El “criado pesado”: la caracterización en la serie Águila Roja
2018
El presente articulo, partiendo de los mas recientes estudios sobre el discurso telecinematico, pretende contribuir a la investigacion en el ambito de la linguistica aplicada a las series televisivas, las cuales constituyen uno de los productos culturales populares mas influyentes en la sociedad contemporanea. El corpus de estudio esta compuesto por los guiones completos de la exitosa serie Aguila Roja, emitida por Radio Television Espanola entre 2009 y 2016. Compaginando tecnicas de la linguistica de corpus y del analisis del discurso, este estudio examina la caracterizacion de Satur, uno de los personajes principales de la ficcion, a traves de la co-construccion del significado elaborada …
Itsemurhatartunnan taikauskosta: The Moth Diaries (2011) ja 13 Reasons Why (2017)
2018
Artikkeli käsittelee kahden itsemurhaa kuvaavan populaarikulttuurin tapausesimerkin, The Moth Diaries -elokuvan ja 13 Reasons Why -sarjan, ja tabun käsitteen välityksellä itsemurhaan liitettyä tartunnan pelkoa ja tämän pelon ilmenemistä viihteen ja median representaatioita säätelevässä Werther-efektissä. Keväällä 2017 julkaistun kohutun 13 Reasons Why -Netflix-sarjan ensimmäisen kauden vastaanotto ilmentää sosiologien, psykologien ja kansanterveystieteilijöiden tunnetuksi tekemää Werther-efektiä, median välittämäksi pelättyä itsemurhatartuntaa. Kanadalainen kauhudraama The Moth Diaries (2011) taas käsittelee sisällössään vanhemmalta lapselle periytyvää itsemurhatartuntaa vampyyrin hahmon vä…
España plató de cine: claroscuros de las rutas de cine y televisión
2020
El interés por visitar los lugares donde se rodaron las películas y series de televisión de éxito está presente en la motivación de los viajes recreativos que realizan millones de turistas por todo el mundo. Aunque la imagen internacional de España no se ha construido sobre esta modalidad de turismo, la mejora en las políticas de incentivos fiscales que se ofrecen a las producciones internacionales, junto con la decidida apuesta de los gestores de destinos por ampliar su oferta cultural con rutas de cine y el interés de la industria audiovisual por alargar la vida de las producciones ha revitalizado la vieja idea de convertir el territorio en un plató de cine. El estudio de una muestra repr…
Introduction to Expanding Universes : Exploring Games and Transmedial Ways of World-building
2018
Transmedia is a wide concept, as by definition, it is a network of various media forms. It includes also games, both digital and more traditional forms of games. Transmedia productions are often built around a certain television series, but in some cases a digital game has been the core production as well. Games, however, have not been looked at in detail in their role as a part of a transmedia whole. It is important to pay attention to the specificity of games as a media form, to their product-audience relation, and to the way how they incorporate playfulness into that relation. Even in cases where games are just a minor part of the production, the playfulness involved in transmedia user p…
Prese urbane. Studi di enunciazioni cittadine
2017
Distinguished and diverse theorists such as Benveniste, Barthes, De Certeau and Lotman have each approached the city in different ways. But while several key differences exist between them, their points of view intertwine around the concept of urban enunciation and intersect at differing points. In this study, the positions of these authors will be presented, compared and elaborated upon and the categories of linguistic enunciation of urban space will be set out, drawing from a vision of translation between languages that frequently leads, as is so often the case in Semiotics, to productive analytical models. The linguistic signs of the city will also be illustrated by examples of "short fo…
‘Something’s Not Right in Silverhöjd’: Nordic Supernatural and Environmental and Species Justice in Jordskott
2022
In the Swedish/Finnish/British/Norwegian television series Jordskott (2015–17) child victims’ mysterious disappearances signal that ‘something’s not right’ in Silverhöjd, a Swedish town. Three detectives uncover a conflict between the locals who depend on a local industry and preternatural human-like but non-human forest creatures familiar from Nordic tradition and fairylore. Both humans and semi/non-humans are ambivalent, but what sets the latter apart is their implication in caring for nature, protecting it, and punishing those who harm it. We analyse this series’ instantiation of a folkloristic popular green criminology, based in the idea that popular discourses’ representations of crime…
Ficciones inmunitarias. Sobre la lógica de la inmunidad en la cultura contemporánea
2018
This article develops the concept of “immunitarian fiction” taking as paradigmatic examples epidemics and zombie narratives, which share the idea of contagion as the main matrix of their narrative. The article tries to address the following question: in what way do these fictions, and other similar ones, participate in the imaginary of immunity and, at the same time, show some of their internal contradictions? For this, the text reflects on a set of cultural products of mass diffusion (novels, television series, cinematographic works). We analyze, in the first place, how these fictions highlight the fears and social anxieties linked to the tensions of the “immune paradigm” and represent the…
The Hays Office and the Two Updated Film Versions of Madeleine Smith’s Case: Letty Lynton (1932) and Dishonored Lady (1947)
2016
The celebrated case of Madeleine Smith, the Glasgow poisoner, who was tried for murder (and absolved) in 1857, has resulted in many novels, plays, films and television series. Hollywood, during its classical period, made two updated versions of the incident: Letty Lynton (Clarence Brown, 1932) and Dishonored Lady (Robert Stevenson, 1947). Even though the two films are separated by more than a decade, the self-censorship introduced by the studios themselves – MPPDA, commonly known as the Hays Office – exercised so much control over the two pictures that they can hardly be taken as equivalent. This article proposes a comparative analysis of the two films and how censorship acted as a constrai…
“Apparently, women don't know how to operate doors": A corpus-based analysis of women stereotypes in the TV series <i>3rd Rock from the Sun<…
2017
This paper explores how women stereotypes are discursively evaluated in the TV sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun by paying attention to the societal, cultural and ideological values they convey. Following recent trends for the study of television series (Bednarek, 2010), the analysis is both qualitative and quantitative, adopting a Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis approach (Baker, 2006; Partington, 2004). The contextualised analysis of words that refer to women confirms that the sitcom writers of 3rd Rock from the Sun purposefully resort to stereotyping as a verbal strategy to create humour while conveying negative attitudes towards women.
Alcohol, tobacco and drug use among young people: a study of recent Spanish teen series (2015-2021)
2022
El presente trabajo analiza la representación de los adolescentes y el consumo de alcohol, tabaco y otras drogas en las teen series españolas recientes (2015-2021) creadas para la televisión convencional y las plataformas de video on demand (VOD). Resulta esencial estudiar el discurso que la ficción televisiva ofrece sobre el consumo de sustancias en la adolescencia para conocer los modelos identitarios y las representaciones sociales que se presentan, puesto que las personas jóvenes suelen recurrir a las series de televisión como fuente de información sobre temas en los que son más inexpertos, como pueden ser algunas cuestiones y problemáticas específicas en torno al consumo de sustancias …