La película Argentina, 1985, dirigida por Santiago Mitre, es sin duda un éxito abrumante, comerci... more La película Argentina, 1985, dirigida por Santiago Mitre, es sin duda un éxito abrumante, comercial y críticamente en el contexto del cine global, a pesar de haber quedado corto en los Oscar. Aquí exploro dos vertientes de la creación y recepción del filme, según nociones de género: géneros de ficción, y géneros de la realidad, o sea, documentales. Sostengo dos premisas: la primera, que la recepción dispara de la película radica en interpretarla con el lente limitado de uno o pocos géneros, y por ello hay que apreciar cómo los combina; y la segunda, que la representación de la familia en el filme es clave para entender su estructura cinematográfica y su recepción.
The San Sebastián International Film Festival, the longest running festival in the Spanish-speaki... more The San Sebastián International Film Festival, the longest running festival in the Spanish-speaking world, celebrated its 70th anniversary edition on September 16- 24, 2022. This review highlights the strong representation of Spanish and Latin American cinema as well as the overall focus, through prizes, on young, debuting actors, such as the 14 year old Carla Quilez of La Maternal, and on early career directors, such as Genki Kawamura, who won best director for Hyakka/A Hundred Flowers, a film about dementia.
The essay analyses the extraordinary participation and recognition of women filmmakers, including Valentina Marel (Horizontes Latinos Award), Natalia Berenstaín (Spanish Cooperation Award), and above all, Laura Mora, whose film The Kings of the World won the Golden Shell for Best Film. Mora’s comments are discussed regarding the effects of the pandemic, the film’s “delirious” or “mystical” narrative style and her inspiration in Palestinian poetry.
Movies from Chile (My Imaginary Country, 1976, The Wonder), Cuba (Vincenta B, The Padilla Affair), Mexico (Bardo, Noise), Spain (Suro, Prison 77) and Argentina (Argentina 1985) are explored within their political contexts, such as femicide, migration, labor exploitation, dictatorship, and human rights violations. The controversy, in which the protagonist Lalo Santos disavowed the gay pseudo-documentary Pornomelancolia, is recounted.
Finally this review posits the appearance at this San Sebastián festival of some new, though disparate, transnational trends, namely, the development of a common feminist haptic style of sound design, based on the work of Guido Berenblum, and the resurgence of smoking scenes in almost all films screened.
The demand for more spectrums in a smart grid communication network is a significant challenge in... more The demand for more spectrums in a smart grid communication network is a significant challenge in originally scarce spectrum resources. Cognitive radio (CR) is a powerful technique for solving the spectrum scarcity problem by adapting the transmission parameters according to predefined objectives in an active wireless communication network. This paper presents a cognitive radio decision engine that dynamically selects optimal radio transmission parameters for wireless home area networks (HAN) of smart grid applications via the multi-objective differential evolution (MODE) optimization method. The proposed system helps to drive optimal communication parameters to realize power saving, maximum throughput and minimum bit error rate communication modes. A differential evolution algorithm is used to select the optimal transmission parameters for given communication modes based on a fitness function that combines multiple objectives based on appropriate weights. Simulation results highlight the superiority of the proposed system in terms of accuracy and convergence as compared with other evolution algorithms (genetic optimization, particle swarm optimization, and ant colony optimization) for different communication modes (power saving mode, high throughput mode, emergency communication mode, and balanced mode).
The demand for more spectrums in a smart grid communication network is a significant challenge in... more The demand for more spectrums in a smart grid communication network is a significant challenge in originally scarce spectrum resources. Cognitive radio (CR) is a powerful technique for solving the spectrum scarcity problem by adapting the transmission parameters according to predefined objectives in an active wireless communication network. This paper presents a cognitive radio decision engine that dynamically selects optimal radio transmission parameters for wireless home area networks (HAN) of smart grid applications via the multi-objective differential evolution (MODE) optimization method. The proposed system helps to drive optimal communication parameters to realize power saving, maximum throughput and minimum bit error rate communication modes. A differential evolution algorithm is used to select the optimal transmission parameters for given communication modes based on a fitness function that combines multiple objectives based on appropriate weights. Simulation results highlight the superiority of the proposed system in terms of accuracy and convergence as compared with other evolution algorithms (genetic optimization, particle swarm optimization, and ant colony optimization) for different communication modes (power saving mode, high throughput mode, emergency communication mode, and balanced mode).
Este libro ofrece una serie de reflexiones en torno a los procesos de envejecimiento en nuestras ... more Este libro ofrece una serie de reflexiones en torno a los procesos de envejecimiento en nuestras sociedades contemporaneas. La vejez se asocia por lo general a nociones peyorativas ligadas a la decadencia, a la enfermedad, al dolor, a la pasividad y, en ultimo termino, a la muerte. El modelo normativo asociado a la productividad y a la reproduccion hace que se desprecien los cuerpos que ya no cumplen con esos propositos. Los ensayos que articulan este volumen exploran representaciones de la vejez en diversos terrenos artisticos: el cine, la literatura, y el comic y analizan la dedicacion de los medios de comunicacion (las revistas y la radio) a este segmento de la poblacion. Se incluye ademas un ensayo centrado en la articulacion de una propuesta transfeminista y un estudio en torno a la participacion de las mujeres en acontecimientos deportivos. Estas representaciones analizadas en muchos casos acusan los modelos de discriminacion, aislamiento y falta de visibilidad, apoyo social y...
La película Argentina, 1985, dirigida por Santiago Mitre, es sin duda un éxito abrumante, comerci... more La película Argentina, 1985, dirigida por Santiago Mitre, es sin duda un éxito abrumante, comercial y críticamente en el contexto del cine global, a pesar de haber quedado corto en los Oscar. Aquí exploro dos vertientes de la creación y recepción del filme, según nociones de género: géneros de ficción, y géneros de la realidad, o sea, documentales. Sostengo dos premisas: la primera, que la recepción dispara de la película radica en interpretarla con el lente limitado de uno o pocos géneros, y por ello hay que apreciar cómo los combina; y la segunda, que la representación de la familia en el filme es clave para entender su estructura cinematográfica y su recepción.
The San Sebastián International Film Festival, the longest running festival in the Spanish-speaki... more The San Sebastián International Film Festival, the longest running festival in the Spanish-speaking world, celebrated its 70th anniversary edition on September 16- 24, 2022. This review highlights the strong representation of Spanish and Latin American cinema as well as the overall focus, through prizes, on young, debuting actors, such as the 14 year old Carla Quilez of La Maternal, and on early career directors, such as Genki Kawamura, who won best director for Hyakka/A Hundred Flowers, a film about dementia.
The essay analyses the extraordinary participation and recognition of women filmmakers, including Valentina Marel (Horizontes Latinos Award), Natalia Berenstaín (Spanish Cooperation Award), and above all, Laura Mora, whose film The Kings of the World won the Golden Shell for Best Film. Mora’s comments are discussed regarding the effects of the pandemic, the film’s “delirious” or “mystical” narrative style and her inspiration in Palestinian poetry.
Movies from Chile (My Imaginary Country, 1976, The Wonder), Cuba (Vincenta B, The Padilla Affair), Mexico (Bardo, Noise), Spain (Suro, Prison 77) and Argentina (Argentina 1985) are explored within their political contexts, such as femicide, migration, labor exploitation, dictatorship, and human rights violations. The controversy, in which the protagonist Lalo Santos disavowed the gay pseudo-documentary Pornomelancolia, is recounted.
Finally this review posits the appearance at this San Sebastián festival of some new, though disparate, transnational trends, namely, the development of a common feminist haptic style of sound design, based on the work of Guido Berenblum, and the resurgence of smoking scenes in almost all films screened.
The demand for more spectrums in a smart grid communication network is a significant challenge in... more The demand for more spectrums in a smart grid communication network is a significant challenge in originally scarce spectrum resources. Cognitive radio (CR) is a powerful technique for solving the spectrum scarcity problem by adapting the transmission parameters according to predefined objectives in an active wireless communication network. This paper presents a cognitive radio decision engine that dynamically selects optimal radio transmission parameters for wireless home area networks (HAN) of smart grid applications via the multi-objective differential evolution (MODE) optimization method. The proposed system helps to drive optimal communication parameters to realize power saving, maximum throughput and minimum bit error rate communication modes. A differential evolution algorithm is used to select the optimal transmission parameters for given communication modes based on a fitness function that combines multiple objectives based on appropriate weights. Simulation results highlight the superiority of the proposed system in terms of accuracy and convergence as compared with other evolution algorithms (genetic optimization, particle swarm optimization, and ant colony optimization) for different communication modes (power saving mode, high throughput mode, emergency communication mode, and balanced mode).
The demand for more spectrums in a smart grid communication network is a significant challenge in... more The demand for more spectrums in a smart grid communication network is a significant challenge in originally scarce spectrum resources. Cognitive radio (CR) is a powerful technique for solving the spectrum scarcity problem by adapting the transmission parameters according to predefined objectives in an active wireless communication network. This paper presents a cognitive radio decision engine that dynamically selects optimal radio transmission parameters for wireless home area networks (HAN) of smart grid applications via the multi-objective differential evolution (MODE) optimization method. The proposed system helps to drive optimal communication parameters to realize power saving, maximum throughput and minimum bit error rate communication modes. A differential evolution algorithm is used to select the optimal transmission parameters for given communication modes based on a fitness function that combines multiple objectives based on appropriate weights. Simulation results highlight the superiority of the proposed system in terms of accuracy and convergence as compared with other evolution algorithms (genetic optimization, particle swarm optimization, and ant colony optimization) for different communication modes (power saving mode, high throughput mode, emergency communication mode, and balanced mode).
Este libro ofrece una serie de reflexiones en torno a los procesos de envejecimiento en nuestras ... more Este libro ofrece una serie de reflexiones en torno a los procesos de envejecimiento en nuestras sociedades contemporaneas. La vejez se asocia por lo general a nociones peyorativas ligadas a la decadencia, a la enfermedad, al dolor, a la pasividad y, en ultimo termino, a la muerte. El modelo normativo asociado a la productividad y a la reproduccion hace que se desprecien los cuerpos que ya no cumplen con esos propositos. Los ensayos que articulan este volumen exploran representaciones de la vejez en diversos terrenos artisticos: el cine, la literatura, y el comic y analizan la dedicacion de los medios de comunicacion (las revistas y la radio) a este segmento de la poblacion. Se incluye ademas un ensayo centrado en la articulacion de una propuesta transfeminista y un estudio en torno a la participacion de las mujeres en acontecimientos deportivos. Estas representaciones analizadas en muchos casos acusan los modelos de discriminacion, aislamiento y falta de visibilidad, apoyo social y...
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The essay analyses the extraordinary participation and recognition of women filmmakers, including Valentina Marel (Horizontes Latinos Award), Natalia Berenstaín (Spanish Cooperation Award), and above all, Laura Mora, whose film The Kings of the World won the Golden Shell for Best Film. Mora’s comments are discussed regarding the effects of the pandemic, the film’s “delirious” or “mystical” narrative style and her inspiration in Palestinian poetry.
Movies from Chile (My Imaginary Country, 1976, The Wonder), Cuba (Vincenta B, The Padilla Affair), Mexico (Bardo, Noise), Spain (Suro, Prison 77) and Argentina (Argentina 1985) are explored within their political contexts, such as femicide, migration, labor exploitation, dictatorship, and human rights violations. The controversy, in which the protagonist Lalo Santos disavowed the gay pseudo-documentary Pornomelancolia, is recounted.
Finally this review posits the appearance at this San Sebastián festival of some new, though disparate, transnational trends, namely, the development of a common feminist haptic style of sound design, based on the work of Guido Berenblum, and the resurgence of smoking scenes in almost all films screened.
The essay analyses the extraordinary participation and recognition of women filmmakers, including Valentina Marel (Horizontes Latinos Award), Natalia Berenstaín (Spanish Cooperation Award), and above all, Laura Mora, whose film The Kings of the World won the Golden Shell for Best Film. Mora’s comments are discussed regarding the effects of the pandemic, the film’s “delirious” or “mystical” narrative style and her inspiration in Palestinian poetry.
Movies from Chile (My Imaginary Country, 1976, The Wonder), Cuba (Vincenta B, The Padilla Affair), Mexico (Bardo, Noise), Spain (Suro, Prison 77) and Argentina (Argentina 1985) are explored within their political contexts, such as femicide, migration, labor exploitation, dictatorship, and human rights violations. The controversy, in which the protagonist Lalo Santos disavowed the gay pseudo-documentary Pornomelancolia, is recounted.
Finally this review posits the appearance at this San Sebastián festival of some new, though disparate, transnational trends, namely, the development of a common feminist haptic style of sound design, based on the work of Guido Berenblum, and the resurgence of smoking scenes in almost all films screened.