This investigation aims at unveiling the existing connections between the TV fiction series Mad Men (AMC, 2007-2015) and Betty Friedan’s essay The Feminine Mystique, one of the key texts of the socalled feminist ‘second-wave,’ published in 1963. Both works deal with the role of women in the 1960s, within the…

The Madrid-born filmmaker Arturo Ruiz-Castillo (1910-1994) was educated according to the values of the “Institución Libre de Enseñanza” and was raised in a family environment that was close to the intellectual circles of the “Edad de Plata”. Since he was young, he developed multitalented interests that led on to the…

Understanding the image, and more specifically the film image, as a way to represent and be represented, as a tool of communication and also a message, and as a standard practice, leads us to reflect on the influence of audio-visual creation on the collective imaginary and links the acts of…

This research focuses on the influence that the surrealist movement performed on the cinema of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and North-yugoslavian nations between 1945 and 1990. Through the analysis of filmographies and particular works by authors from the four countries, it studies their similarities and differences in their approach to cinema…

Beginning with the women-object-not subject heteropatriarchal norm that organizes the relationship between women and violence and between women and the Film Institution, the present research identifies a normative model that indicates the preferable options for the representation of violence in cinematography and which function is to (re)produce the ontology of…

Smartphones have become the leading domestic computer, reaching a percentage of the population unlike any seen before with a technological product. This ubiquity of the smartphone has also put a camera in the pockets of nearly half of the world’s population, completely changing the concept of domestic photography. This thesis…

Globalization, technological advances, digitalization and digital convergence place local TV in a scenario in which the near is converted into a competitive resource faced with the immense TV offer existing nowadays. In this sense, looking at the study of local TV in Ecuador entails to think about the current situation…

Nowadays, concerts and other live events are no longer registered exclusively by professionals. In any performing, as in any field of daily life, we can see lots of mobile phones and cameras registering what happens. The generalized access to image capturing technologies that characterizes the digital era arises a series…

The aim of this thesis is to offer new approaches on desire, death and religion in Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo. I have studied the possible filmed end of the movie, and a real case whose story might have influenced Vertigo. Desire has been cosidered from the Code Hays point of view…

The techniques of advanced visualization and person-computer interaction frequently used in the worlds of virtual and augmented reality have many other fields of application. This thesis studies the application to two environments: the virtual TV sets and the interactive museums. The first case proposes a new hardware and software architecture,…