Que coisa é o filme

“Que coisa é o filme” tenta determinar que realidade é fabricada e dada a ver pelo cinema, sabendo-se que a indexicalidade (ou indicialidade) das imagens foto-cinematográficas foi o pilar conceptual do realismo ontológico de André Bazin e de toda uma geração de autores por ele influenciada. O texto apoia-se na semiologia pragmática de Charles Sanders Pierce para propor que as imagens foto-cinematográficas podem indistintamente funcionar como s��mbolos, ícones ou índices, e analisa casos de maior intimidade entre o cinema e a pintura, abrindo-se a uma perspectiva caraterística dos estudos interartes.

The wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles: royal mediation and press mediatization

Bearing in mind the relationship between discourse and society at large, this article addresses the way the British monarchy represented Charles’s second marriage and the way the media constructed their accounts in the period from 10 February (announcement) until 9 April 2005 (wedding) in relation to wider issues such as power relations, newspaper economic structures and popular culture. Particular attention is paid to the multifunctional features of discourse (i.e. its ideational, interpersonal and textual functions), which requires a contextualized reading of a dual process of mediation: on the one hand, the staging of the ceremony by St. James���s Palace and its strategy for attaining monologic closure and, on the other hand, discursive representations by the British press open to a polyphony of voices and discursive frames