Multiplot Serial Narrative And Climate Change

Cynthia Cabañas is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Communication at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She obtained her PhD in Psychology, specializing in Film Cognition, from Birkbeck, University of London. Recently, she also completed an MA in Film and TV from Universidad Carlos III of Madrid, complementing her background in psychology and neuroscience. She is interested in the impact of film narratives on various cognitive processes in both neurotypical and neurodiverse populations, as well as the formal elements of film that filmmakers employ to engage and shape these processes. Currently her research focuses on investigating whether complex film narratives can serve as an accessible tool to enhance the cognitive and affective capacities necessary for confronting real-world complexity.

Sandra Martorell is a visual artist, lecturer, and researcher in the Audiovisual Communication, Documentation, and Art History Department at the Universitat Politècnica de València. She is also a member of the ARTiCOM research group at the same university and collaborates with other research groups such as Mediaccions at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and DigiDoc at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Her research interests primarily focus on communication and visual culture, and she has published extensively in journals and books on social media and image. Recently, her work has concentrated on environmental issues, particularly concerning visual eco-narratives. As an artist, her work is typically expressed through photography and audiovisual media, with recurring themes including environmental and gender issues. Her work has been featured in exhibitions in Spain, Austria, Hungary, Germany, Portugal, Slovakia, France, Lithuania, and Costa Rica.

Héctor Julio Pérez López is full Professor of Media Aesthetics at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain). He is a recognized scholar in the study of the narrative and aesthetics of television series. He has led, as principal Investigator, 3 research projects about Serial TV and developed international interdisciplinary collaboration on them in the last 10 years. His pioneering interdisciplinary work has involved collaborating with leading experts in cognitive science to explore narrative emotions or specific features central to seriality. His latest publication is Aesthetics of the narrative climax in contemporary TV serials (2022). He has been promoter and co-editor of Cognition, Emotion, and Aesthetics in Contemporary Serial Television (2023, with T. Nannicelli). He has also been a pioneer in promoting the study of seriality by being a founding member and coeditor-in-chief, with Guglielmo Pescatore and Veronica Innocenti, of the main International Journal devoted to the study of series (https://series.unibo.it/).