Aplicación de las teorías de la emoción fílmica: análisis de "El niño con el pijama de rayas"

En los últimos años el estudio de las emociones ha alcanzado una gran importancia. No nos relacionamos sólo con personas, objetos y paisajes del mundo real, sino que también lo hacemos con lo que llega de los mundos ficticios. Por este motivo, desde hace unas décadas se ha empezado a estudiar el poder emocional del cine en el espectador. Una de las teorías que tratan la emoción fílmica es la mood-cue approach de Greg Smith. Para demostrar su validez vamos a aplicarla a una película con mucho impacto emocional. La elegida es "El niño con el pijama de rayas" dirigida por Mark Herman y basada en el Best Seller de John Boyne.

What makes an ad enjoyable? Analysing advertising appeals as viewed by Portuguese consumers

Nowadays, consumers are faced with a variety of media that convey myriad advertising messages, which struggle amidst a highly competitive environment, with a view to drawing the viewers’ attention, raising awareness, creating interest and inspiring desire and, ultimately, leading to the purchase of the product/service at stake. For this, advertising professionals deliberately intertwine their selling arguments with emotionally-charged creative concepts. It is the aim of this study to analyse the impact of the main creative appeals and to identify groups of consumers based on their attitudes towards them. We have undertaken a quantitative study, by means of a survey administered to a convenience sample with a list of creative appeals, which had to be classified by the respondents according to their attitudes. Globally speaking, the preferred appeals were humour, music and animation. Nonetheless, it was possible to divide the respondents into three groups. ‘Advertising fans’, the ‘rationally-minded’ and the ‘emotionally-minded’. This study presents some limitations, especially as to the sample used. Apart from the reduced number of respondents and lack of more widespread geographic reach, some academic qualifications were underrepresented. The results of this study offer some avenues to be explored by marketing and advertising professionals when it comes to deciding on the best creative approach to select for their advertising campaigns. Besides, this study paves the way to the development of future research on the issue of advertising appeals and its relationship with the psychographic characteristics of consumers.

La Historia de Paulina

Carmen Chamizo Vega es un referente de la enfermería española y más concretamente de la Historia de la Enfermería. Su labor docente, asistencial e investigadora seguirá marcando el futuro, así como su infatigable trabajo estableciendo redes y lazos de comunicación entre los estudiosos de la Enfermería en España y en América. Carmen, discreta y serenamente, se ha ausentado por un rato de nuestras vidas; con este texto, cuyo título está tomado de una narración suya, quiero honrarla sin panegíricos académicos, apelando solo a la emoción de la memoria.