Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Latin America .- The "Dictionary of Latin American Cinema 'stands up to Wikipedia and IMDB

MADRID, 4 May. The SGAE (General Society of Authors and Publishers) has presented on Wednesday the "Dictionary of Latin American Cinema ', an encyclopedic work of ten volumes and about 16,000 entries born academic counterpoint sites like Wikipedia and IMDB. In a meeting with the press, the directors of the publication in Spain, Carlos F.

Eduardo Rodríguez Merchán heir and have highlighted the spirit of the book informative, forming a "multifaceted X" of the entire history of film in 22 countries, from Spain to Puerto Rico, via Brazil, Portugal, Argentina and Mexico. "With Wikipedia competes in authority. In Wikipedia, I can put I am that I made two films and almost won an Oscar.

The dictionary and the web are two totally different tools, ours is made from an academic perspective," said Eduardo Rodriguez Merchan interrupted by Carlos F. Heir, who stresses the "gaping holes" which are still in available through Internet and its most popular. "Keep in mind that Wikipedia can write any and full of mistakes, absolutely unspeakable things.

It is a useful tool and you need to know to filter. IMDB also has holes like the holes in the galaxies. It's something that I use but should be filtered, "said Crown, director at the time of 'Cahiers du Cinéma Spain." Buñuel to Almodovar's work, which comes under the umbrella of the SGAE and after ten years of research and documentation, collect, from A to Z, the history of film makers in Spain, Portugal and the rest of Latin America.

Almodovar Bunuel, Carlos Rinaldi Branch or Lola García Berlanga Fernando Trueba, forming a thematic map for all those fans, tired of journalists and historians delve into the uncertainty. Supported by over 400 specialists in the field, the encyclopedic work consists of some 16,000 entries, which are divided into eight volumes of biographical and thematic voices and two volumes dedicated to movies Spanish, Portuguese and American, recording, thus Latin American film history until January 2008.

"The actors, of course, are those with the most entries, although overall there are more studies on directors, writers and musicians. In developing managers prevail. In number, the actors. Then there is a voice dedicated to each country and autonomy. There is hardly anything the cinema of these countries is not in the work.

There are even voices of artists from third countries, such as Orson Welles and his entire relationship with Spain, or an American star who made films in Argentina " has pointed Crown. DIGITAL DICTIONARY The editor of the publication, Emilio Casares Rodicio, the digital version of the dictionary is available in "a couple of years." "It will be through a 'semantic web 3.0', we are investigating it.

We're launching a website 'smart'. When you're on Mozart in a digital encyclopedia, 8,000 are leaving you, information overwhelms you. We will try to , when you search for Falla, the dictionary asks you what you want about it, literature, historiography * "he stresses. "It will be creative editing," he adds, "that is going to be fixing.

The spirit of this is that it is so cheap that no one has temptations of pirate. It gives the dictionary for 30 euros a year, along with dictionaries of Music and Zarzuela. shall be 30 euros, which will cost two vermouth with olives. It is not intended to do business, is to make culture.

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