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"Tag: Film analysis: historical and social contexts"
The economic crisis of 2008 through four film documentaries: Testimony, debate and reflection
The purpose of this article is to study how the documentary represented the deep economic crisis that began in 2008 in Spain. We propose to apply a methodology of filmic analysis that let us generate a new knowledge about this issue. We will study Edificio España (Víctor Moreno, 2012), Libre…
Female puzzle bodies in the drift of serial fantasy silent films
The main object of study in this research is the cut of the female body in Spanish fantastic silent cinema, designing its own methodology of analysis, which will be called the Triple Cut. The evolution of the different cuts that cross the bodies will be analysed in the drift of…
Metamorphosis from silent dynamic rhythm to the passivity of the body in fiction
In its beginnings, silent cinema emphasised the expressive and communicative potential of the body by exacerbating gestures and actions. However, today's fictional cinema is confronted with an opposite tendency: the passivity of body movement. This study analyses the representation of the body in three films of today's silent cinema from…
How to get into the second: interviews with female creators of contemporary Spanish cinema
Review of the work: Scholz, A., Álvarez, M., Binimelis-Adell, M., Oroz, E. (Eds.)(2021). Entrevistas con creadoras del cine español contemporáneo. Millones de cosas por hacer. Peter Lang. This book brings together a series of interviews and encounters with women filmmakers of the 21st century whose voices are redrawing national filmmaking,…
Augmented screen, triple storytelling and the role of the user: a case study
The present panorama shows a society saturated with images, driven by the use of mobile devices and constant audiovisual consumption. However, no greater skills are achieved in users, but on the contrary, there is evidence of a detriment in the rate of attention and the search for a differentiating product…
Servant girls and middle-class ladies in pre-development Madrid. Saura and Patino in the IIEC
The film production of the Instituto de Investigaciones y Experiencias Cinematográficas (IIEC) and its successor the Escuela Oficial de Cinematografía (EOC) offers, both in quantitative and qualitative terms, first-rate material for studying how Spanish cinema during the Franco period represented the city of Madrid. Based on a detailed analysis of…
Berlanga, Fernán Gómez and the path towards a popular, crusty and grotesque Iberian modernity
The revisiting of Spanish Republican cinema, as well as that produced in the first post-war decades, carried out since the end of the last century by a new historiography that uses film analysis as an unavoidable methodological weapon, constitutes the starting point to delve into the deep parallels and intertwining…
Framing the gig economy: delivery riders in Spanish media (2015-2021)
Riders or delivery messengers are currently a symbol of job insecurity. However, companies in the so-called gig or platform economy continue to present themselves as modern ones, technologically adapted to the new scheme that defines the twenty-first century. The article analyses, from the perspective of framing and journalistic routines, the…
CO(M)XÉNERO IX. Memes, adolescence and uncertainties
Adolescence and humour in their contemporary forms

The ninth edition of the Permanent Seminar on Communication and Gender CO(M)XÉNERO, organised by the Grupo de Estudos Audiovisuais, will work on adolescence and humour in their contemporary forms, understanding these practices as a symptom, on the one hand, of the violent reactions to feminism and, on the other, of…
Cinema and sport. Class, gender and the national question
Activity organised by the Grupo de Estudos Audiovisuais, Cinema.Col.lectiu d'Investigació Estètica des Mitjans Audiovisuals and Cineclube de Compostela

On 14 and 15 September 2023, the seminar Cinema and sport. Class, genre and national question will be held in the Auditorium of the Faculty of Communication Sciences of the USC. This seminar is organised by the Grupo de Estudos Audiovisuais of the University of Santiago de Compostela, Cinema. Col.lectiu d’Investigació Estètica des Mitjans Audiovisuals of the Pompeu Fabra University and…
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