Twin Peaks como alegoria daim��nica cinematogr��fica

For a long time the allegorical activity was considered dogmatic and equated with artistic fossilization, archaic religious propensity and lack of creativity. However, Walter Benjamin (1928) and Paul De Man (1969), among other illustrious thinkers, came to its defense, exalting, instead, its cryptic, hybrid and abstract nature, which, incidentally, are the main characteristics of modern art. ���Twin Peaks ��� Fire Walk with Me��� (David Lynch, 1992) is a wonderful object of analysis, despite being one of the most misunderstood films in the history of cinema. The fact that its narrative is a prequel to the cult television series ���Twin Peaks��� and incorporates many of the characters of that show, explicitly denigrating the moral image of the protagonist, Laura Palmer, brought about an intense rejection by the fans of the series, as well as the indifference of the cinephilic community in general. However, one must go deeper, in order to understand Lynch���s brave accomplishment and its artfulness. Indeed, the opus is a powerful cinematic allegory because it contains a double layer of metaphorical meaning, one of them being explicitly metacinematic. Thus, besides assuming itself as a filmic daimonic allegory, occurring in a spiritual universe of Good versus Evil, the film is also an authorial discourse on cinema itself. More specifically, it is an allegory of spectatorship, according to Robert Stam���s definition, where the existence and crossing over to ���another side��� duplicates the architecture of movie theatres and the psychic processes involved in film viewing.

Audiovisual translation on Portuguese news bulletin

The daily access to news broadcast is something that, generally speaking, we do not abstain ourselves from, whether it is to be aware of what is going on in our country or to be informed about international events. But are we attentive to how the information about those events, namely those that occur outside Portugal, reaches us? How is that information handled ��� and who handles it ��� until we have it at our disposal? Is the audience aware that a large part of the news must be translated and must have a linguistic treatment? And how can we describe that same translation and the way it is presented? This case study is just an example of translation���s role and its crucial presence on TV news broadcast, considering the way translation is processed, how it is barely noticed ��� or not ���, how it influences the construction of the story and how the story influences the translation process. This case study was presented at the 2nd International Conference ���Media for All���, with the theme ���Text on Air, Text on Screen���, which took place at the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, on 7-9 November 2007. O acesso di��rio a servi��os informativos noticiosos �� algo de que, de um modo geral, n��o nos privamos, seja para ficar a par do que se passa no nosso pa��s, seja para ficarmos mais informados sobre eventos e acontecimentos internacionais. Mas teremos no����o de como essas informa����es sobre esses acontecimentos, nomeadamente os que t��m lugar fora de Portugal, chegam at�� n��s? Qual ser�� o tratamento dado a essas informa����es ��� e quem trata essas informa����es ��� at�� serem colocadas �� nossa disposi����o? Ser�� que o p��blico, de um modo geral, se apercebe que grande parte das not��cias �� alvo de tratamento tradutol��gico e lingu��stico? E como se caracterizar�� essa tradu����o e a forma de apresenta����o da mesma? O presente estudo de caso �� apenas um exemplo do papel e da presen��a fulcral da tradu����o em servi��os noticiosos televisivos, seja pela forma como �� feita, pelo modo como passa despercebida (ou n��o), pela influ��ncia que ter�� na constru����o da pe��a noticiosa e pela influ��ncia que a pe��a noticiosa ter�� no modo como se processa a tradu����o. Este estudo de caso foi apresentado na 2�� Confer��ncia Internacional ���Media for All���, subordinada ao tema ���Text on Air, Text on Screen���, que teve lugar no Instituto Polit��cnico de Leiria de 7 a 9 de Novembro de 2007.

O valor da privacidade: o caso das audi��ncias da Casa dos Segredos

Disserta����o apresentada �� Escola Superior de Comunica����o Social como parte dos requisitos para obten����o de grau de mestre em Audiovisual e Multim��dia.

O panorama do audiovisual infantil em Portugal: a problem��tica da surdez equacionada na concep����o de filmes de anima����o

Disserta����o apresentada �� Escola Superior de Comunica����o Social como parte dos requisitos para obten����o de grau de mestre em Audiovisual e Multim��dia.

Equipamentos de congela����o industrial de produtos alimentares perec��veis: an��lise comparada de apoio �� decis��o

Trabalho Final de Mestrado para obten����o do grau de Mestre em Engenharia Mec��nica

O papel do pivot na produ����o da not��cia: estudo de caso da SIC

Relat��rio de est��gio apresentado �� Escola Superior de Comunica����o Social como parte dos requisitos para obten����o de grau de mestre em Jornalismo.

Infotainment: a arte de entreter e o compromisso de informar: o espa��o e a import��ncia do infotainment no canal televisivo SIC

Relat��rio de est��gio apresentado �� Escola Superior de Comunica����o Social como parte dos requisitos para obten����o de grau de mestre em Jornalismo.

A imagem feminina: os apelos na publicidade dirigida ao p��blico infantil

Disserta����o apresentada �� Escola Superior de Comunica����o Social como parte dos requisitos para obten����o de grau de mestre em Publicidade e Marketing.

O papel da televis��o interna na rela����o com os colaboradores da TAP Portugal

Mesquita, Ana Rita Biscaia de Melo - O papel da Televis��o interna na rela����o com os colaboradores da TAP Portugal. Lisboa: Escola Superior de Comunica����o Social, 2014. Relat��rio de est��gio.

Public school teachers’ perceptions about mental health

OBJECTIVE To examine public school teachers’ perceptions about general health and mental health, and the way in which they obtained this information. METHODS Qualitative research was conducted with 31 primary and secondary school teachers at a state school in the municipality of Sao Paulo, SP, Southeastern Brazil, in 2010. The teachers responded to a questionnaire containing open-ended questions about mental health and general health. The following aspects were evaluated: Teachers’ understanding of the terms “health and “mental health,” the relevance of the need for information on the subject, the method preferred for obtaining information, their experience with different media regarding such matters, and perceptions about the extent to which this available information is sufficient to support their practice. The data were processed using the Qualiquantisoft software and analyzed according to the Discourse of the Collective Subject technique. RESULTS From the teachers’ perspective, general health is defined as the proper physiological functioning of the body and mental health is related to the balance between mind and body, as a requirement for happiness. Most of the teachers (80.6%) showed great interest in acquiring knowledge about mental health and receiving educational materials on the subject. For these teachers, the lack of information creates insecurity and complicates the management of everyday situations involving mental disorders. For 61.3% of the teachers, television is the medium that provides the most information on the topic. CONCLUSIONS The data indicate that there is little information available on mental health for teachers, showing that strategies need to be developed to promote mental health in schools.

Unified transform architecture for AVC, AVS, VC-1 and HEVC high-performance codecs

A unified architecture for fast and efficient computation of the set of two-dimensional (2-D) transforms adopted by the most recent state-of-the-art digital video standards is presented in this paper. Contrasting to other designs with similar functionality, the presented architecture is supported on a scalable, modular and completely configurable processing structure. This flexible structure not only allows to easily reconfigure the architecture to support different transform kernels, but it also permits its resizing to efficiently support transforms of different orders (e. g. order-4, order-8, order-16 and order-32). Consequently, not only is it highly suitable to realize high-performance multi-standard transform cores, but it also offers highly efficient implementations of specialized processing structures addressing only a reduced subset of transforms that are used by a specific video standard. The experimental results that were obtained by prototyping several configurations of this processing structure in a Xilinx Virtex-7 FPGA show the superior performance and hardware efficiency levels provided by the proposed unified architecture for the implementation of transform cores for the Advanced Video Coding (AVC), Audio Video coding Standard (AVS), VC-1 and High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standards. In addition, such results also demonstrate the ability of this processing structure to realize multi-standard transform cores supporting all the standards mentioned above and that are capable of processing the 8k Ultra High Definition Television (UHDTV) video format (7,680 x 4,320 at 30 fps) in real time.

ERICA: use of screens and consumption of meals and snacks by Brazilian adolescents

ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE To describe the length of exposure to screens and the prevalence of consumption of meals and snacks by Brazilian adolescents in front of screens. METHODS We evaluated 74,589 12 to 17-year old adolescents from 1,247 schools in 124 Brazilian municipalities. A self-administered questionnaire was used. Its segment regarding nutrition contained questions about using TV, computers, and video game systems, having meals while watching TV, and consuming snacks in front of screens. Consumption of meals and snacks in front of screens was analyzed according to the following variables: geographical region, gender, age range, type of school (public or private), and school shift. The prevalences and their respective 95% confidence intervals were estimated under a complex sampling design. RESULTS A great deal of the adolescents (73.5%, 95%CI 72.3-74.7) reported spending two or more hours a day in front of screens. That habit was more frequent among male adolescents, private school students, morning shift students, and students from Brazil’s South region. More than half of the adolescents (56.6%, 95%CI 55.4-57.8) reported almost always or always having meals in front of TV, and 39.6% (95%CI 38.8-40.5) of them said they consumed snacks in front of screens exactly as often. Both situations were the most prevalent ones among the girls, who attended public schools and were from Brazil’s Midwest region. CONCLUSIONS Length of exposure to screens and consumption of meals and snacks almost always or always in front of screens are high among Brazilian adolescents. It is necessary to develop strategies aiming to reduce the length of screen use, considering the media reality that children and adolescents have been experiencing from earlier and earlier ages. That context must therefore be analyzed in an indissociable way.

O corpo como imagem e as imagens do corpo na contemporaneidade

Tese de doutoramento, Belas-Artes (Teoria da Imagem), Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Belas-Artes, 2013

Telescola um m��todo de ensino

Mestrado em Educa����o Matem��tica na Educa����o Pr�� ��� Escolar e nos 1.�� e 2.�� Ciclos do Ensino B��sico

O Arquivo Audiovisual da SIC: a reutiliza����o dos conte��dos da esta����o na produ����o di��ria de not��cias

Relat��rio de est��gio apresentado �� Escola Superior de Comunica����o Social como parte dos requisitos para obten����o de grau de mestre em Audiovisual e Multim��dia.