National and transnational poetics of the cinema and audiovisuals of contemporary Ecuador: case studies.

This research proposes to analyze certain outstanding topics that the cinematographic production of this last and a half decade leaves: national and transnational cinematographic poetics, the author's documentary cinema, the protest documentary, the experimental in fiction. In recent Ecuadorian cinema, as a cultural product and object of study, it is possible (Phenomenon and cultural construction) of our society and its issues or problems. Of course, as a general framework of the cinematographic event, this research focuses on the production, circulation and reception system of films, and then contextualize them. The work raises a multidisciplinary study that from several perspectives analyzes contemporary Ecuadorian cinema as a whole and at the same time focuses the movies; That is, it goes from the film and textual analysis of the films to the definition of the terms of production and reception. Research objects will be addressed from the fields of the sociology of cinema and audiovisual, visual anthropology, cultural studies and post -colonial theory, narratology and cinematographic iconology, script theory and cinema aesthetics. The wording of five texts, in format of scientific articles and essays, will be the final product of the project that will be executed by the research team. Also, it is planned to receive four works (articles and/or essays) from external collaborators and the guests to the colloquium. In each study a specific issue will be addressed with respect to the general issue: National and Transnational Cinematographic Poetics, the author's documentary cinema, the protest documentary, the experimental in fiction.

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