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This article deals with recent Spanish and Portuguese political television series. Within this sub-genre, it is pertinent to consider the symbolic construction of politics, as well as the differences caused by each series’ geographical adscription. Six Spanish productions have been selected—Isabel (Isabella the Catholic), Carlos Rey Emperador (Charles the Emperor King), La Embajada (The Embassy), Crematorio (Crematorium), Vamos Juan/Venga Juan (Come on, Juan/Let’s go Juan), and El Partido (The Party)—along with three Portuguese productions—A Rainha e a Bastarda (The Queen and the Bastard), Teorias da Conspiração (Conspiracy Theories), and Os Boys (The Boys). The narrative of these audio-visual stories has been examined utilising qualitative content analysis, looking at the plotlines and characters involved. The type of characterisation of politics has been identified by means of the deconstruction of the main characters. The conclusion is that the evaluation is eminently negative, although differential frameworks are present, depending, in particular, on the fiction’s genre, either historical drama, drama-thriller, or comedy.

The Paramilitary Hero on Turkish Television: A Case Study on Valley of the Wolves explores the representation and reception of nationalism and masculinity in Turkey through an examination of the popular television serial, Valley of the Wolves which has been aired on Turkish television since 2003. This detailed examination of the show demonstrates a particular discourse of nationalism, namely the Turkish Islam synthesis embedded in a gender-specific regime in which the paramilitary hero is pla.

Background In recent decades, scholars have become increasingly concerned about rising political cynicism. This study tests whether people exposed to political television series become more cynical. Analysis Three groups of participants are exposed to the first episode of two political series (House of Cards and The West Wing) and one non-political series (The Big Bang Theory). Their level of political cynicism is measured before and after exposure to the episode. Conclusions and implications Results indicate that not all political television series have the same impact on their audiences: series recognized for their intense negativity increase people’s level of cynicism, while those portraying politics in a positive way do not have any impact. More sophisticated participants did not seem to react differently, as political knowledge does not moderate the impact upon cynicism.

Why do Internet, financial service, and beer commercials dominate Super Bowl advertising? How do political ceremonies establish authority? Why does repetition characterize anthems and ritual speech? Why were circular forms favored for public festivals during the French Revolution? This book answers these questions using a single concept: common knowledge. Game theory shows that in order to coordinate its actions, a group of people must form \"common knowledge.\" Each person wants to participate only if others also participate. Members must have knowledge of each other, knowledge of that knowledge, knowledge of the knowledge of that knowledge, and so on. Michael Chwe applies this insight, with striking erudition, to analyze a range of rituals across history and cultures. He shows that public ceremonies are powerful not simply because they transmit meaning from a central source to each audience member but because they let audience members know what other members know. For instance, people watching the Super Bowl know that many others are seeing precisely what they see and that those people know in turn that many others are also watching. This creates common knowledge, and advertisers selling products that depend on consensus are willing to pay large sums to gain access to it. Remarkably, a great variety of rituals and ceremonies, such as formal inaugurations, work in much the same way. By using a rational-choice argument to explain diverse cultural practices, Chwe argues for a close reciprocal relationship between the perspectives of rationality and culture. He illustrates how game theory can be applied to an unexpectedly broad spectrum of problems, while showing in an admirably clear way what game theory might hold for scholars in the social sciences and humanities who are not yet acquainted with it. In a new afterword, Chwe delves into new applications of common knowledge, both in the real world and in experiments, and considers how generating common knowledge has become easier in the digital age.

La baja representación trans en la industria audiovisual evidencia el fracaso del proceso de inclusión LGBT en la cultura. A partir de una revisión histórica de las series de ficción televisivas del siglo XXI se analizan las formas de visibilización trans en 6 producciones chilenas. A través de una metodología visual se realiza un análisis narrativo de 7 personajes trans considerando su performance de género, interacción sexo-afectiva y tipo de final. Ninguna de las ficciones posee un rol protagónico trans. Más bien, se trata de una incorporación restringida a roles episódicos y figurantes. En conclusión, la criminalización, la patologización y la comicidad trans funcionan como fuerzas centrífugas que las expulsan hacia los márgenes de las narrativas y de las representaciones televisivas.

Candlestick charts display the high, low, opening, and closing prices in a specific period. Candlestick patterns emerge because human actions and reactions are patterned and continuously replicate. These patterns capture information on the candles. According to Thomas Bulkowski's Encyclopedia of Candlestick Charts, there are 103 candlestick patterns. Traders use these patterns to determine when to enter and exit. Candlestick pattern classification approaches take the hard work out of visually identifying these patterns. To highlight its capabilities, we propose a two-steps approach to recognize candlestick patterns automatically. The first step uses the Gramian Angular Field (GAF) to encode the time series as different types of images. The second step uses the Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) with the GAF images to learn eight critical kinds of candlestick patterns. In this paper, we call the approach GAF-CNN. In the experiments, our approach can identify the eight types of candlestick patterns with 90.7% average accuracy automatically in real-world data, outperforming the LSTM model.

Despite increasing access to high quality television (TV) series in the golden age of television, political scientists (and especially scholars of comparative politics) have not systematically considered the possibilities that television series might offer for instruction. This article aims to fill this gap by illustrating the opportunities for teaching political science using TV series and outlining ways of integrating television series into the classroom using selected clips, screening full episodes, or using an entire series as a text. We then illustrate these methods by discussing ways that television series might be used in a typical introductory course on European politics.

The 7th Symphony by Beethoven is often referred to as a 'dance symphony' and was described by Wagner as a 'grand apotheosis of the dance', but van Schayk hears in the music the voice of an almost obsessive idealism. Beethoven wrote the his Symphony No. 7 between 1812 and 1813, the last years of the Napoleonic Wars, and the choreographer feels that it expresses the composer's ecstatic longing to reach the sublime future he was convinced lay ahead at the end of the dark period of the war. Music performed by The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, conducted by Bernard Haitink. A great admirer of George Balanchine, Hans van Manen was once told that Beethoven was one of the few composers whose work was impossible to choreograph. Van Manen rose to the challenge, creating Grosse Fuge to Beethoven's String Quartets, opus 133 in B flat major (Grosse Fuge) and the Cavatina from opus 130 in B flat major. The resulting work is an abstract ballet on van Manen's favourite theme - the tension and relationships between human beings. He once said, \"As soon as I place two people in an empty room I express a mood or a relationship.\" Set Design - Jean-Paul Vroom, Costume Design - Hans van Manen, Musicians - Quartetto Italiano With a good deal of ironic and sometimes sarcastic humour eroticism and aggression between man and women are expressed in the Piano Variations choreographed on Prokofiev's Sarcasms Op. 17, to Satie's Gnossiennes Nos. 1, 2 & 3 and Debussy's Etudes No. 12, 2 & 4. In the interview with van Manen he talks about the Piano Variations and his ideas in choreography.

Tibet Autonomous Region is located on the southwestern border of the People's Republic of China, in the southwestern part of the Tibetan Plateau. It is famous for its majestic and magnificent natural scenery. And it is a vast land with spectacular landscapes, rich resources, and many famous scenic spots and monuments. Since ancient times, the people on this land have created a rich and splendid national culture. Ranging from Buddhist culture to various intangible cultural heritages to boarding schools, the series takes viewers into the magical land of Tibet from a variety of perspectives.

La presente investigación se centra en la representación de las mujeres políticas en las ficciones seriadas a través de la serie Borgen (2010-2013) y desde una perspectiva de género. Para ello, desde una metodología cualitativa, se realiza una revisión de los estereotipos de género que marcan habitualmente a los personajes de mujeres políticas en la ficción y se comprueba si se reproducen o se rompen en la serie objeto del estudio. Los resultados de la investigación revelan que Borgen presenta una transgresión del género en lo relativo a cuatro ámbitos: conciliación vida pública-privada, rasgos de personalidad, competencia temática y liderazgo, proponiendo así una hoja de ruta para la representación de las mujeres en los medios de comunicación, así como para la realización de una comunicación política desde una perspectiva de género. This investigation focuses, from a gender perspective, on the representation of the female politicians on fiction series, specifically in Borgen (2010-2013). In order to analyze it, a review of the gender stereotypes that habitually characterise female politicians in fiction is carried out through a qualitative methodology. This study also check if the Borgen series keep or destroy these stereotypes. The results of the research demonstrate that Borgen presents a transgression of gender in four different areas: conciliation of the public-private life, personality features, thematic competence and leadership. Therefore the thesis suggests a roadmap for the representation of women in the media, as well as a realization of a political communication from a gender perspective.