The limits of low-cost cinema in Spain: an analysis of the #Littlesecretfilm movement

This is an Author's Original Manuscript of an Article whose final and definitive form, the Version of Record, has been published in the Creative Industries Journal, 2020, 13:1, available online at: https://doi.org/10.1080/17510694.2019.1652024The self-styled #Littlesecretfilm phenomenon is a low-cost film production and distribution movement that was launched in Spain in 2013. Based on a reconstruction and examination of its development from its foundation (with the publication of a manifesto in the form of ten commandments) through to its products (a full survey of which are presented here), this article offers a meaningful and not entirely uncritical snapshot of a conscious proposal of a low-cost production model in contemporary Spain. In our conclusion, we tie this film movement in with international debates about the viability of a low-cost approach in the context of a national film industry that has been left badly battered by the financial crisis that began in 2008

Differences between machine and human testing of shock absorbing systems.

This thesis documents a study on the sources of the differences found between results from machine and walking testing of shock absorbing systems. A complex programme of experiments was conducted at the Institute of Biomechanics of Valencia to explore the four most outstanding statements proposed with this respect: 1. - No accurate simulation of impacts by machine test. This was investigated by comparing results from testing materials simulating impact forces with results from walking tests. 2. - In use materials degrade and their properties change and existing machine testing methods could not replicate material properties during walking. A new testing method was developed to measure the recovery ability of materials by simulating plantar pressures and results compared with walking tests. 3. - Shoe effect on walking kinematics and heel pad confinement has greater influence on shock absorption than material properties. An instrumented pendulum was developed to study the heel pad. Insole materials were evaluated in walking tests, in pendulum tests and in different machine testing including the new method developed simulating plantar pressures and the results compared. 4. - Accommodation to impact conditions occurs according to a controlled proprioceptive feedback model. Accommodation, impact perception, comfort, walking and passive biomechanical variables and material properties were studied in relation to system's input, output and goal. Accurate simulation of impacts improved the ability of machine test to predict the walking performance of materials, but not upper body shock transmission. Properties of materials such as recovery ability, stiffness and hardness play an important role in concepts and passive interaction but mainly by influencing accommodation. Accommodation was identified as the source of differences of results between machine and walking tests of shock absorbing materials. The human body was described as comprising two independent mechanical systems: One system, governed by the elasticity and hardness of materials, it is defined by impact forces and accelerations that are inversely related to upper body transmission and control the perceived impact through foot position and knee bend. The other system is defined by heel pad stiffness, insole properties at initial loading and passive interaction that regulate upper body shock transmission by ankle inversion for comfort control. Passive interaction is defined in this thesis as the mechanical coupling between insole and heel pad that determines the properties of the system either through heel pad confinement or compression. Machine tests appear to predict results with respect to the first system but not the second, which required passive human testing. For insole use, high-energy absorption materials are preferred. These are capable of increasing elastic deformation to reduce impact forces and accelerations without increasing initial-maximal stiffness by passive interaction thus avoiding any increase of head transmission due to accommodation. Heel pad properties were described by three mechanical components accounting for 93.08% of total variance: These are an elastic component, a viscoelastic component and a component related to elastic deformation at low stiffness. Differences were found between shod and barefoot test results. With barefoot there was an initial low stiffness (18-50 kNm*1) response that was not evident in the shod tests which showed elastic deformation related to final stiffness. With barefoot, the elastic component accounted for impact forces variance (> 70%) and initial deformation component for peak force time (> 60%), while shod impact forces were related mainly to the elastic deformation component (> 60%) whereas rate of loading and acceleration were related to the initial-maximal stiffness component (>20%). Differences in heel pad mechanics due to age, gender and obesity were observed. Although the heel pad properties degraded with age, losses appeared to be compensated by obesity

Adaptación de un mito en la cuentística popular de Mallorca

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The Indecency of Knowledge

Paper by Madeleine Alcove

Cyrano De Bergerac Et Le Feu: Les Complexes Prométhéens De La Science Et Du Phallus

Paper by Madeleine Alcove

Le Mythe de M. Ross Chambers Sur "Le Mythe Du Libertin"

Paper by Madeleine Alcove

The tourist area lifecycle and the unit roots test. A new economic perspective for a classic paradigm in tourism.

As many traditional tourist destinations have experienced a slow down in tourist arrivals and expenditure, Butler’s (1980) Tourist Area Life Cycle (TALC) model seems to attract new attention from tourist researchers. The TALC describes the evolution of a tourist area from its discovery to its final stage picturing an evolutionary path represented with an S shaped curve associated to the logistic function. The limits of growth and the shape of the curve represent the existence of congestion problems and upper carrying capacity limits. But the TALC has been repeatedly criticized by its lack of operability and its departures from the anticipated curve. An alternative way to test its existence is to estimate its theoretical logistic curve and test the presence of unit roots. The application of this new technique to Majorca concludes that the evolutionary path predicted by the TALC does not apply in this particular case. Even more, the empirical results could imply that shocks that affect to this destination will have not temporary but permanent effects, encouraging the adoption of pro-active policy measures.Destination lifecycle, carrying capacity, logistic function, unit root test

Les quimeres del passat

Els endemismes vertebrats insulars desaparegut

Pionerismo relativo y autoría compartida. Mito contra Historia del cine español

The modern historiography of the Spanish movies has tended to divide into lots, in terms of methodological and ideological options. In like manner, anti-empiricist and anti-positivist slogans have had perverse effects for an authentic knowledge of the vicissitude of our cinematography, in particular for its industry and the paper of the subjects in the evolution of the same. The present work aspires to arbitrate this debate, and to contribute a proposal of encounter, reasoned, critical, constructive and concrete. Three Spanish classical films – namely: Goyescas (Benito Perojo, 1942), La calle sin sol (Rafael Gil, 1948) and Los peces rojos (José Antonio Nieves Conde, 1955)– are used to contribute, respectively, data about the genesis of the first; the second’s technical new thing; and the authorship of the third one. With these three examples, the author indicates which is the nature of the historiographical lagoons that are, to his judgment, more urgent; reorganizes priorities; arguments the strategies that may be considered best-suited to cover those holes; and illustrates the performance that can be obtained of a well-balanced and not excluding use of the techniques and the traditional and contemporaries technologies, for a most systematic understanding of the object of study.La moderna historiografía del cine español ha tendido a parcelarse en función de opciones metodológicas e ideológicas. Asimismo, las consignas antiempiristas y antipositivistas han tenido efectos perversos para un auténtico conocimiento del devenir de nuestra cinematografía, en particular por lo que respecta a su industria y al papel de los sujetos en la evolución de la misma. El presente trabajo aspira a terciar en este debate, y a aportar una propuesta de encuentro, razonada, crítica, constructiva y concreta. Para ello, se sirve de tres películas españolas clásicas –a saber: Goyescas (Benito Perojo, 1942), La calle sin sol (Rafael Gil, 1948) y Los peces rojos (José Antonio Nieves Conde, 1955)–, para aportar, respectivamente, datos en torno a la génesis de la primera; a la novedad técnica de la segunda; y a la autoría de la tercera. Con estos tres ejemplos, el autor señala cuál es la naturaleza de las lagunas historiográficas que en estos momentos son, a su juicio, más acuciantes; reordena las prioridades; argumenta las estrategias que considera más adecuadas para cubrir aquellos huecos; e ilustra el rendimiento que puede obtenerse de un uso equilibrado y no excluyente de las técnicas y las tecnologías tradicionales y contemporáneas, para un entendimiento más sistemático del objeto de estudio