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Article 1

Changes in the thematic characterizations of the virtuous Sheriff in the Western genre.

The aim of this work is to describe the new profile of the virtuous sheriff stereotype, which is observed since 1990 in American films belonging to the western genre. In order to do this, two periods of time were compared: one related to films shot in the fifties, and the other related to films carried out since the nineties. Through systematical observation of every film and the later comparison of such periods, the new profile of the virtuous sheriff was determined, principally based on the observation of a major quantity (and a more violent treatment) of violence, revenge, concession and threats motives characterized by the mentioned sheriff. Moreover this paper aims at establishing a theme rift in the western genre, at least in the mentioned aspect.

Key words: Movies - Western - Theme Breakup - Genre Motives - Sheriff.

 

Article 2

Audiovisual movie entertainment. Reception in Argentina between the years 1929 to 1933

This work is aimed at doing a research on the newspapers "La Nación", "El Diario" and "El Mundo" and finding out the effects that talking movies had on the City of Buenos Aires between the period 1929 to 1933. Such research aims to get and to classify useful data to demonstrate that the sound component at the movie entertainment is not only an element of attraction (since the beginning of the device) but it is also accepted and published as it is. In conclusion, this work proposes to widen the range of validity in which the concept of attraction is currently used as a category exclusively linked to the visual aspects of the films.

Key Words: Cinema - Industrialization process - Movie Entertainment - Audiovisual - Attraction

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