Vicente Rodríguez Ortega
Biographic Data
| ID | 2018057 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vicente Rodríguez Ortega |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vicente Rodríguez |
| FAMILY NAME | Ortega |
| SIGNATURE | ORTEGA V R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0987-9528 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
What survives in the dark
El impacto de lo imprevisible
Este artículo explora el concepto de lo imprevisible como una perspectiva para reinterpretar la historia del cine español, desafiando las narrativas tradicionales centradas en movimientos estilísticos o la identidad nacional. Centrándose en figuras clave como Pedro Almodóvar, Jesús Franco y Chema García Ibarra, el estudio destaca cómo sucesos inesperados han moldeado la evolución del cine español. La narrativa transgresora de Almodóvar, el cine d…
Hong Kong and Taipei in the 1990s
Notes1 Chungking Mansions is one of the main commercial hubs in Hong Kong for a variety of low-end globalization products. For a long time, Chungking Mansions had a bad reputation as a dodgy place. Still today, some locals avoid stepping inside the building complex.2 Chungking Express and Fallen Angels are connected in a variety of ways. In fact, one of the characters, He Zhiwu, has the same name in both films and shares a number 223 (Cop ID in C…
Audiovisual streaming, networked memory & Netflix
In the current mediascape, streaming services have fundamentally changed the ways in which spectators consume audiovisual media. Moreover, they have contributed to the creation of a new kind of viewer that I would like to call the spectator-interface—that is, a human-digital hybrid that is constituted through the different process of browsing, watching, and migrating in consuming audiovisual media. This article outlines the main attributes of the…
Curating the middlebrow
This article situates the Spanish SVoD service Filmin within the global and national contemporary streaming panorama. It critically analyses Filmin’s four main self-proclaimed strategies for standing out in the highly competitive Spanish SVoD market – a curated catalogue, the platform’s European identity, engagement with classical films and collaborations with film festivals. The success of these strategies is evident in Filmin’s substantial prof…
We Pay to Buy Ourselves’
This article explains how Netflix has transformed the ways in which we interact with media in the contemporary milieu. I argue that Netflix works through a process of planned differentiation , designing unique customization experiences to create a new type of media user that participates in its global and regional release and production strategies. This leads me into a discussion of how the Netflix interface manages the spectators’ experience thr…
The Return of Genre in 1990s Spanish Cinema
This article focuses on the key impact of genre in Spanish cinema in the early to mid-1990s. First, it addresses a series of legislative changes from the 1980s and 1990s and their influence on the national cinematic output. Second, it analyses box-office data in the early-to-mid 1990s while drawing attention to the emergence of new players—such as private multimedia enterprises—in the field of film production. Third, it examines the work of two d…
Coda. From the Barcelona Olympics to Alcàsser
This article scrutinizes the recurrent presence of two 1992 media images in the Spanish social imaginary until the present day. On the one hand, it addresses how these images are in a process of constant resignification, establishing a dialogue with evolving social and cultural phenomena. On the other, it traces how a variety of media – from music to cinema, from television to newspapers – have deployed these images to perform a series of aesthet…
Daenerys Targaryen Will Save Spain
This article deals with the use of the American television series Game of Thrones (HBO: 2011–) as part of the political discourse of the emerging political party Podemos in Spain. First, we focus on Podemos leader, Pablo Iglesias, who, in 2014, edited a book devoted to analyzing this series from a political science viewpoint. We then move on to study ideologically charged symbolic gestures and the detailed analysis of the parallelisms between Dae…
Atlético versus Real
While giving a historical overview of the Atlético/Real rivalry, this essay aims at scrutinizing the building blocks of this cross-city rivalry by analyzing key demographic, social and economic factors at work. First, it explains the cartographic dimensions of both clubs within the Madrid urban space, studying their shifting geographic status while examining supporters’ patterns of behaviour, paying close attention at how Real global branding has…
Soccer, nationalism and the media in contemporary Spanish society
This essay examines the relationship between nationalism and soccer in contemporary Spain. Firstly, it pays close attention to the roles of the national team and the rivalry between Real Madrid and FC Barcelona in articulating conflictual social agendas. Secondly, it compares how Spanish and Catalan media utilize the Spanish soccer team success to articulate clashing forms of nationalism. It scrutinizes a wide range of journalistic interventions …
Espectros de la movida
La Movida es uno de los prismas interpretativos fundamentales de la Transición. La historia oficial (o más bien oficializada desde la contemporaneidad) nos cuenta que durante comienzos de los 80 Madrid se transformó en un irreverente crisol de propuestas de diversa índole. Una serie de figuras dispares y heterogéneas rompieron con el traumático pasado franquista y modernizaron una sociedad anquilosada que carecía de la capacidad de beber de las v…
Spoof trailers, hyperlinked spectators & the web
Spoof trailers are trailers for a non-existent film that typically has a parodic tone, changing the genre of the source film or films. They may combine materials from different films in the form of mash-ups or re-order scenes or shots of a single film, altering the original title cards and voiceover narration. They may also incorporate images and sound bites from popular media artefacts. Spoof trailers have also become one of the key manners thro…
Children of Men and Demonlover
Soccer, nationalism and the media in contemporary Spanish society
This essay examines the relationship between nationalism and soccer in contemporary Spain. Firstly, it pays close attention to the roles of the national team and the rivalry between Real Madrid and FC Barcelona in articulating conflictual social agendas. Secondly, it compares how Spanish and Catalan media utilize the Spanish soccer team success to articulate clashing forms of nationalism. It scrutinizes a wide range of journalistic interventions …
We Pay to Buy Ourselves’
This article explains how Netflix has transformed the ways in which we interact with media in the contemporary milieu. I argue that Netflix works through a process of planned differentiation , designing unique customization experiences to create a new type of media user that participates in its global and regional release and production strategies. This leads me into a discussion of how the Netflix interface manages the spectators’ experience thr…
Daenerys Targaryen Will Save Spain
This article deals with the use of the American television series Game of Thrones (HBO: 2011–) as part of the political discourse of the emerging political party Podemos in Spain. First, we focus on Podemos leader, Pablo Iglesias, who, in 2014, edited a book devoted to analyzing this series from a political science viewpoint. We then move on to study ideologically charged symbolic gestures and the detailed analysis of the parallelisms between Dae…
Spoof trailers, hyperlinked spectators & the web
Spoof trailers are trailers for a non-existent film that typically has a parodic tone, changing the genre of the source film or films. They may combine materials from different films in the form of mash-ups or re-order scenes or shots of a single film, altering the original title cards and voiceover narration. They may also incorporate images and sound bites from popular media artefacts. Spoof trailers have also become one of the key manners thro…
Children of Men and Demonlover
Spoof trailers, hyperlinked spectators & the web
Spoof trailers are trailers for a non-existent film that typically has a parodic tone, changing the genre of the source film or films. They may combine materials from different films in the form of mash-ups or re-order scenes or shots of a single film, altering the original title cards and voiceover narration. They may also incorporate images and sound bites from popular media artefacts. Spoof trailers have also become one of the key manners thro…
Soccer, nationalism and the media in contemporary Spanish society
This essay examines the relationship between nationalism and soccer in contemporary Spain. Firstly, it pays close attention to the roles of the national team and the rivalry between Real Madrid and FC Barcelona in articulating conflictual social agendas. Secondly, it compares how Spanish and Catalan media utilize the Spanish soccer team success to articulate clashing forms of nationalism. It scrutinizes a wide range of journalistic interventions …
Espectros de la movida
La Movida es uno de los prismas interpretativos fundamentales de la Transición. La historia oficial (o más bien oficializada desde la contemporaneidad) nos cuenta que durante comienzos de los 80 Madrid se transformó en un irreverente crisol de propuestas de diversa índole. Una serie de figuras dispares y heterogéneas rompieron con el traumático pasado franquista y modernizaron una sociedad anquilosada que carecía de la capacidad de beber de las v…
Atlético versus Real
While giving a historical overview of the Atlético/Real rivalry, this essay aims at scrutinizing the building blocks of this cross-city rivalry by analyzing key demographic, social and economic factors at work. First, it explains the cartographic dimensions of both clubs within the Madrid urban space, studying their shifting geographic status while examining supporters’ patterns of behaviour, paying close attention at how Real global branding has…
Daenerys Targaryen Will Save Spain
This article deals with the use of the American television series Game of Thrones (HBO: 2011–) as part of the political discourse of the emerging political party Podemos in Spain. First, we focus on Podemos leader, Pablo Iglesias, who, in 2014, edited a book devoted to analyzing this series from a political science viewpoint. We then move on to study ideologically charged symbolic gestures and the detailed analysis of the parallelisms between Dae…
The Return of Genre in 1990s Spanish Cinema
This article focuses on the key impact of genre in Spanish cinema in the early to mid-1990s. First, it addresses a series of legislative changes from the 1980s and 1990s and their influence on the national cinematic output. Second, it analyses box-office data in the early-to-mid 1990s while drawing attention to the emergence of new players—such as private multimedia enterprises—in the field of film production. Third, it examines the work of two d…
Coda. From the Barcelona Olympics to Alcàsser
This article scrutinizes the recurrent presence of two 1992 media images in the Spanish social imaginary until the present day. On the one hand, it addresses how these images are in a process of constant resignification, establishing a dialogue with evolving social and cultural phenomena. On the other, it traces how a variety of media – from music to cinema, from television to newspapers – have deployed these images to perform a series of aesthet…
We Pay to Buy Ourselves’
This article explains how Netflix has transformed the ways in which we interact with media in the contemporary milieu. I argue that Netflix works through a process of planned differentiation , designing unique customization experiences to create a new type of media user that participates in its global and regional release and production strategies. This leads me into a discussion of how the Netflix interface manages the spectators’ experience thr…
Audiovisual streaming, networked memory & Netflix
In the current mediascape, streaming services have fundamentally changed the ways in which spectators consume audiovisual media. Moreover, they have contributed to the creation of a new kind of viewer that I would like to call the spectator-interface—that is, a human-digital hybrid that is constituted through the different process of browsing, watching, and migrating in consuming audiovisual media. This article outlines the main attributes of the…
Curating the middlebrow
This article situates the Spanish SVoD service Filmin within the global and national contemporary streaming panorama. It critically analyses Filmin’s four main self-proclaimed strategies for standing out in the highly competitive Spanish SVoD market – a curated catalogue, the platform’s European identity, engagement with classical films and collaborations with film festivals. The success of these strategies is evident in Filmin’s substantial prof…
Hong Kong and Taipei in the 1990s
Notes1 Chungking Mansions is one of the main commercial hubs in Hong Kong for a variety of low-end globalization products. For a long time, Chungking Mansions had a bad reputation as a dodgy place. Still today, some locals avoid stepping inside the building complex.2 Chungking Express and Fallen Angels are connected in a variety of ways. In fact, one of the characters, He Zhiwu, has the same name in both films and shares a number 223 (Cop ID in C…
What survives in the dark
El impacto de lo imprevisible
Este artículo explora el concepto de lo imprevisible como una perspectiva para reinterpretar la historia del cine español, desafiando las narrativas tradicionales centradas en movimientos estilísticos o la identidad nacional. Centrándose en figuras clave como Pedro Almodóvar, Jesús Franco y Chema García Ibarra, el estudio destaca cómo sucesos inesperados han moldeado la evolución del cine español. La narrativa transgresora de Almodóvar, el cine d…
Cinema and Media Studies (7 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Media studies (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Digital Games and Media (4 works) · Key (lock (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works)