VISUAL REVIEW. International Visual Culture Review / Revista Internacional de Cultura Visual

Public Sphere and Spaces to Live

2021-12-09T13:13:29+01:00

The City, as a political, social and cultural construction is a product of the symbolic interrelationships that evolve, transform and reinvent themselves in the timeline that becomes a stage, a common space, the public sphere defined by Jürgen Habermas. In this context, the link between the imagined, the virtual and the real intersect to generate an interesting dialogue between the collective imagination and the production of reality. A journey of experiences in which the “gaze” is altered by some constructions of power and representations, that are reproduced in a transmedia framework of global interconnectivity.

Opening the Limits of Artistic and Social Expression

2021-10-07T14:09:52+02:00

The 20th century marked a before and after in the Art. Fundamentally, the emergence of the avant-garde brought new ideals that allow the open work approach. Therefore, from the current context of the 21st century, we ask ourselves: How does the Art express this idea of open work? And how does the Art of today manage to expand towards social and communicative pretensions that involve the viewer in new forms of participation? It is because we show different examples, which tell us how the situation of the author and the viewer in front of the work has developed.

Production and Reception of Iranian Feminist Cinema: "The Unwanted Woman"

2022-05-12T14:31:58+02:00

This study brings together the work of Tahmineh Milani, known for directing Iran's highest-grossing film and for winning international awards. In her career, she stands out for her political treatment, having had problems with censorship, and for being the first imprisoned filmmaker in the country's history. This is why this research aims to analyze the repercussion of Milani's work, from the point of view of its production and reception. In this respect, historical documents serve to contextualize the cinematographic activity of the filmmaker and the analysis of her work.

Construction of Shared Semantic Spaces through Gestures in Interpreter-Mediated Psychotherapy Sessions

2022-05-12T16:02:50+02:00

Gestures are an inherent part of all face-to-face interactions. Nevertheless, their role in interpreter-mediated events has so far been marginalized in the field of interpreting studies. Based on a multimodal corpus of interactions in child psychiatry with migrant patients, this research focuses on the use of iconic gestures, their role in bridging the linguistic gap and in performing cultural mediation. The results of the study suggest that gestures play a part in the construction of shared semantic spaces and act as a marker of interpreting fidelity, hence, becoming corner stones in the trust-building process between the migrant patients and the public service interpreters.

Management Models in Socio-cultural Transformative Organizations

2022-05-17T13:38:13+02:00

Comparative study of management models in holocratic organizations aimed at socio-cultural transformation. Two organizations have been selected, from the same sector (knowledge industry), but in different regions (America and Europe), to verify their operational similarities and differences and level of results.