Camerimage, un festival único dedicado al arte de la fotografía cinematográfica

  1. Laura Cortés-Selva 1
  2. Montserrat Jurado-Martín 3
  3. Liudmila Ostrovskaya 2
  1. 1 Universidad Católica de Murcia (España)
  2. 2 Universidad de Alicante (España)
  3. 3 Universidad Miguel Hernández (España)
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Journal:
Revista Latina de Comunicación Social

ISSN: 1138-5820

Year of publication: 2018

Issue: 73

Pages: 614-632

Type: Article

DOI: 10.4185/RLCS-2018-1272 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

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Abstract

Introduction. Camerimage is one of the scarce festivals devoted to cinematography that has received limited attention. Objectives. This research studies its strategies to promote cinematography; photographic styles boosted and impact on cinematographer’s professional career. Methodology. A mixed method approach is used with qualitative and quantitative techniques: participant observation; analysis of the programs and documents published by the festival; content analysis of the awarded films and analysis of the Internet movie database. Results and conclusions. Camerimage axes are cinematographers, audiovisual works excellent in cinematography and an audience concerned with the quality of cinematic images. Camerimage strategy is based on the awards given to excellence in cinematography, supporting continuous training, fostering networking among film creators; and building a community. This festival promotes a meticulous high contrast and scarce colour saturation cinematography adapted to each story, dominated by drama genre mainly focused in past time periods. Camerimage implies an impact in the professional career of men directors of photography from centre and north of Europe that get to increase their participation in the north American industry.

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