Audiovisual narratives: historical, aesthetical and cultural perspectives

Abstract

It would be hard to refute the relevance of image in the contemporary context. Increasingly more ubiquitous and part of our routines, we are all the time blasted by images, we carry images in our mobile phones, and we keep sharing and deleting images. There are so many of these images that it becomes all the more pressing to ascertain, in the filmic and audiovisual context, creations that offer themselves as instigating, singular and innovative – be that related to matters of authorship, reception, identity, subjectivity and performance. This dossier proposes the gathering of texts which may contribute to a perspective on audiovisual narratives in their many facets: historical, aesthetical and cultural, in such a way that we see ruptures, unsettlements and experimentations. The articles may also address audiovisual narratives in dialogue with other artistic expressions and media constellations.

Organizers: Alessandra Brandão (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil); Lourdes Martínez-Echazábal (University of California, Santa Cruz – UCSC, USA); Luiz Antonio Mousinho (Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Brazil).