The television series, to discussion - The Cultural.es

television series implanted spent several years as a cultural product of the first row in our society. A product that is consumed daily as deeply rooted. Consistent with this phenomenon, the SOS Festival Murcia organized a series of debates around it. And this year again back, to try to answer the many outstanding questions. With The Country critic Jordi Costa as commissioner of the cycle.

Television series have taken over from the film? Are they the best form of expression of contemporary man? Can we learn more about the postmodern citizen thanks to the TV series? And draw a new vision of the world and man? They are some of the issues put on the table at the festival, which brought together the musical bridge XX groups like Bloc Party, Crystal Fighters, M83 …

fire will open this Friday at 17.00 hours Fernando de Felipe, Doctor of Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona, ??and Ivan Gomez, PhD in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, ??with a lecture entitled side Fictions 11S Footprints in TV series made in USA . Series like 24 , The Shield , The Sopranos , CSI , West Wing White House and The Wire have been quick to take the pulse of history , and have not hesitated to 11-S directly, allegorical and even synchronously, one reason more dramatic.

Later will be the turn of the writer and director Jordi Carrión Vigalondo. Open a debate on science fiction in the XXI century and translating them into the film, with more questions: Is it better First or Fringe ? ? Matrix or Galactica ? Does it make sense to compare?

On Saturday (17.00 hours) will witness the prestigious Australian critic Adrian Martin, with a talk on the literary character of some narratives developed television series. The current TV fiction shows today an ingenious and interesting fabric novelistic modes. Martin will focus especially Breaking Bad .

Later (18:30), Carlos Reviriego, section coordinator of the Cultural cinema, will address series Louie dissect , portrait and comic Louis CK Masquerade Through a deconstruction of the three seasons of the series in different blocks of video, travel the paths of a man who found the zen mental hospital in the heart of New York, a comedian who caught the American dream overtaking David Letterman in cahoots with David Lynch and Rocky Balboa.