"El show de Truman". Estrategias metaficcionales y quiebras del simulacro

Pasada ya una década desde el estreno de El show de Truman en 1998, una revisión de esta película nos redescubre la inusitada actualidad de la reflexión que sigue planteando sobre nuestra sociedad audiovisual. El presente artículo explora estos asuntos con una estructura escalonada: tras un análisis de las estructuras narrativas y retóricas de corte metaficcional del relato, se adentra en el modo en que se dramatizan los efectos del simulacro en la vida social, al tiempo que cuestiona el alcance de sus consecuencias. Estas cuestiones se abordan desde un análisis textual, realizado en la primera parte a partir del marco planteado por autores como Waugh, Hutcheon y Stam. En la segunda parte, el análisis textual se combina con un enfoque temático para estudiar en qué medida el filme encarna modelos y fenómenos relacionados con la sociedad del espectáculo y con la cultura del simulacro planteada por Jean Baudrillard

El docudrama contemporáneo: rasgos configuradores

El docudrama se ha convertido en un modelo génerico y narrativo de creciente importancia en la ficción contemporánea y con un impacto cada vez mayor en España, sobre todo en su forma televisiva. Sin embargo, en nuestro país, su investigación académica es todavía relativamente escasa, en comparación con la atención que ha recibido en el mundo angloparlante. Este artículo ofrece una primera aproximación a la definición del docudrama, basado en dos tipos de análisis. En la primera parte, realizamos un análisis contextual, que revisa las características básicas de las principales tradiciones –la británica y la norteamericana– que históricamente han configurado este tipo de obras. En la segunda, se analizan los elementos de carácter textual, basándose en el estudio de sus aspectos ficcionales y documentales. /// The docudrama has become a narrative and genre model of increasing importance in contemporary fiction and with a growing impact in Spain, above all in its televised form. However, in our country, academic research on the docudrama is still relatively limited in comparison with the attention which it has received in the English-speaking world. The paper we present here offers an initial approach to the definition of the docudrama, based on two different types of analysis. In the first part, we consider contextual analysis, which analyzes the basic features of the principal traditions —the British and the North American— which have historically shaped these products. In the second, we analyze elements of a textual nature, based on their dual fictional and documental aspects

Limit cycles in the Holling-Tanner model

This paper deals with the following question: does the asymptotic stability of the positive equilibrium of the Holling-Tanner model imply it is also globally stable? We will show that the answer to this question is negative. The main tool we use is the computation of Poincaré-Lyapunov constants in case a weak focus occurs. In this way we are able to construct an example with two limit cycles

Towards a better learning models through OCWs and MOOCs

echnological advances of XXth century have induced a profound change in society and, therefore, in the high education. Internet supposed a qualitative difference, as information and digital images flooded into homes around the world. The Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) is a medium sized university of Spain that has been involved in the development of digital video content (Polimedia) to support teaching processes for several years. Joint with Polimedia and other learning objects (virtual laboratories, applets, etc.), the UPV promoted the construction of OCWs. Along with the improvement of technology, MOOCs appeared as e-learning material. In this work, we analyze the advantages and drawbacks of OCWs and MOOCs when they are used in our classroom. This experience has led us to incorporate in our methodology the flip teaching

Estudio paleopatológico de un proceso osteolítico: posible quiste dérmico en un cráneo tardorromano

X Congreso Nacional de Paleopatología. Univesidad Autónoma de Madrid, septiembre de 200

Espondilitis anquilopoyética en la Necrópolis tardorromana de Polisisto (Concentaina, Alicante)

X Congreso Nacional de Paleopatología. Univesidad Autónoma de Madrid, septiembre de 200

The representation of personal memory in Alan Berliner’s First Cousin Once Removed

This article intends to analyze the representation of personal memory in Alan Berliner’s film First Cousin Once Removed. The film serves as an innovative proposal in the filmic representation of personal memory, going beyond the most obvious topic of the film – the biography of Berliner’s second uncle, suffering from Alzheimer’s – and presenting us with a study of personal memory through the use of cinematic language. After a brief overview of how personal memory is represented in cinema, we first examine the film’s thematic lines and narrative structure, proceeding afterwards to a closer analysis of its representation of the most relevant features of personal memory: subjectivity, complex temporality and performativity. Berliner explores these features in the film with insight: he emphasizes the subjective/autobiographical nature of memory work; he frames his portrait of Edwin Honig within complex temporal coordinates, where the past and present become indiscernible; and builds a self-reflexive film that emphasizes the performative character of memory and of its filmic representation

La representación fílmica de la memoria personal: las películas de memoria

Resumen El artículo busca definir y analizar lo que denomina como “películas de memoria”, filmes de ficción o documental que tienen como tema principal la memoria personal Dichas películas ponen en primer plano la duplicidad presente/pasado –inherente tanto a la memoria como a la imagen cinematográfica–, que se despliega en un tiempo personal o subjetivo. Para representar la memoria personal, estos filmes se articulan en torno a tres características que consiguen captar la dinámica de la memoria como facultad humana: la subjetividad, la indiscernibilidad temporal y la performatividad. Abstract The article seeks to define and analyze what it calls "memory films", fiction or documentary films that have as their main theme personal memory. These films bring to the fore the present/past duplicity –inherent both in memory and in the filmic image–, which unfolds in a personal or subjective time. To represent personal memory, these films are articulated around three characteristics that manage to capture the dynamics of memory as a human faculty: subjectivity, temporal indiscernibility and performativity

New consistency index based on inertial operating speed

The occurrence of road crashes depends on several factors, with design consistency (i.e., conformance of highway geometry to drivers' expectations) being one of the most important. A new consistency model for evaluating the performance of tangent-to-curve transitions on two-lane rural roads was developed. This model was based on the inertial consistency index (ICI) defined for each transition. The ICI was calculated at the beginning point of the curve as the difference between the average operating speed on the previous 1-km road segment (inertial operating speed) and the actual operating speed at this point. For the calibration of the ICI and its thresholds, 88 road segments, which included 1,686 tangent-to-curve transitions, were studied. The relationship between those results and the crash rate associated with each transition was analyzed. The results showed that the higher the ICI was, the higher the crash rate; thus, the probability of accidents increased. Similar results were obtained from the study of the relationship between the ICI and the weighted average crash rate of the corresponding group of transitions. A graphical and statistical analysis established that road consistency might be considered good when the ICI was lower than 10 km/h, poor when the ICI was higher than 20 km/h, and fair otherwise. A validation process that considered 20 road segments was performed. The ICI values obtained were highly correlated to the number of crashes that had occurred at the analyzed transitions. Thus, the ICI and its consistency thresholds resulted in a new approach for evaluation of consistency.The authors thank the Center for Studies and Experimentation of Public Works of the Spanish Ministry of Public Works, which partially subsidized the data collection, for obtaining the empirical operating speed profiles used in the validation process. The authors also thank the General Directorate of Public Works of the Infrastructure and Transportation Department of the Valencian government, the Valencian Province Council, and the General Directorate of Traffic of the Ministry of the Interior of the Government of Spain for their cooperation in data gathering.García García, A.; Llopis Castelló, D.; Camacho Torregrosa, FJ.; Pérez Zuriaga, AM. (2013). New consistency index based on inertial operating speed. Transportation Research Record. (2391):105-112. doi:10.3141/2391-10S1051122391Ng, J. C. ., & Sayed, T. (2004). Effect of geometric design consistency on road safety. Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, 31(2), 218-227. doi:10.1139/l03-090Gibreel, G. M., Easa, S. M., Hassan, Y., & El-Dimeery, I. A. (1999). State of the Art of Highway Geometric Design Consistency. Journal of Transportation Engineering, 125(4), 305-313. doi:10.1061/(asce)0733-947x(1999)125:4(305)Hassan, Y. (2004). Highway Design Consistency: Refining the State of Knowledge and Practice. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 1881(1), 63-71. doi:10.3141/1881-08Polus, A., & Mattar-Habib, C. (2004). New Consistency Model for Rural Highways and Its Relationship to Safety. Journal of Transportation Engineering, 130(3), 286-293. doi:10.1061/(asce)0733-947x(2004)130:3(286)Cafiso, S., Di Graziano, A., Di Silvestro, G., La Cava, G., & Persaud, B. (2010). Development of comprehensive accident models for two-lane rural highways using exposure, geometry, consistency and context variables. Accident Analysis & Prevention, 42(4), 1072-1079. doi:10.1016/j.aap.2009.12.015Zuriaga, A. M. P., García, A. G., Torregrosa, F. J. C., & D’Attoma, P. (2010). Modeling Operating Speed and Deceleration on Two-Lane Rural Roads with Global Positioning System Data. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2171(1), 11-20. doi:10.3141/2171-0