Travel, back and forth, to the myth. Cinema��s contribution to the formation of the tourist iconography of Mallorca

Mallorca, the largest of the Balearic Islands, is a well-known summer holidays destination; an ideal place to relax and enjoy the sun and the sea. That tourist gaze reflected on postcards results from advertising campaigns, where cinema played an important role with documentaries and fiction films. The origins of that iconography started in the decades of the 1920���s and 1930���s, reflecting the so-called myth of the ���island of calm���. On the other hand, the films of the 1950���s and 1960���s created new stereotypes related to the mass tourism boom. Busy beaches and the white bodies of tourists replaced white sandy beaches, mountains and landscapes shown up in the movies of the early decades of the 20th century. Besides, hotels and nightclubs also replaced monuments, rural landscapes and folk exhibitions. These tourist images mirror the social and spatial transformations of Mallorca, under standardization processes like other seaside mass tourist destinations. The identity was rebuilt on the foundations of "modernity". Although "balearization" has not ceased, nowadays filmmaking about Mallorca is advertising again a stereotype close to that one of the 1920s and 1930s, glorifying the myth of the "island of calm". This singular identity makes the island more profitable for capital that searches socio-spatial differentiation in post-fordist times.

Arteterapia en el final de la vida

El arteterapia permite una aproximaci��n creativa biogr��fica particularmente valiosa en la etapa final de la vida. La persona enferma presenta m��ltiples necesidades ��� f��sicas, emocionales, sociales y espirituales ��� que solo una atenci��n hol��stica puede pretender abarcar, tal como lo contempla la filosof��a de los cuidados paliativos. El arteterapeuta integrado en el equipo interdisciplinar contribuye a aliviar y acompa��ar el sufrimiento del paciente y su familia. Se presentan aqu�� las bases te��ricas y la metodolog��a de la intervenci��n, as�� como el marco sanitario en el cual se inscribe.