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Unusual Shapes, Fantasy & Horror

Edición:

Vicente J. Pérez Valero, Francisco Cuéllar Santiago

Resumen:

Focusing on the representation of fantastic and horror territories, this volume delves into the different faces of personified fears, but more specifically into the current tendency to diversify these forms of ideation through the reality and everydayness of the terrifying and imagined event.
This work aims to be a place of analysis and creation through research and dissemination. From cinema, video games, education and, in general, all the arts involved in its processes, we reveal a continuous dialogue both in the revision of what has happened and in current narrative trends. The evolution and applications of the fantasy and horror genre stimulate an increasingly broad and complex creative panorama, with innovative contributions and hybridisations, but also with a retrospective view.

Biografía:

Vicente J. Pérez Valero

Miguel Hernández University

PhD, lecturer and researcher in the Department of Art and the Arts Research Centre of the Miguel Hernández University of Elche and member of the Massiva Research Group, which studies the interrelation between audiovisual arts and mass culture. He is also a guest researcher at the Groupe Interdisciplinaire de Recherche sur les Cultures et Arts en Mouvement (GIRCAM) of the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL). He is currently developing his research activity in various audiovisual and artistic projects. He is President of the Editorial Committee and member of the Scientific Committee of the International Congress of Fantastic Genre, Audiovisuals and New Technologies. He teaches on the Bachelor's Degree in Audiovisual Communication and the Master's Degree in Art Project and Research.

Francisco Cuéllar Santiago

Universidad de Salamanca

PhD, researcher and lecturer in the Painting Department of the Faculty of Fine Arts in Salamanca. He obtained his PhD in Fine Arts from the University of Granada in 2019. He has taught in the faculties of Fine Arts, Audiovisual Communication and Journalism. He has also taught audiovisual education at the Mathematical Research Centre (Mexico) belonging to the National Council for Science and Technology. He has published articles and scientific texts in high-impact indexed journals, such as Revista Comunicar, Revista ASRI (Arte y Sociedad) of the Rey Juan Carlos University, Revista VIVAT affiliated with the University of Alcalá de Henares, and Revista Comunicación of the Technological Institute of Costa Rica, and subsequently in the cultural associations Historia de los Sistemas Informativos and Forum Internacional de Comunicación y Relaciones Públicas (Forum XXI).