La representació de personatges a través del doblatge en narratives transmèdia. Estudi descriptiu de pel·lícules i videojocs basats en "El senyor dels anells"

This doctoral thesis stems from the premise that The Lord of the Rings has evolved into a transmedia project, a brand-new storytelling means in which stories unfold across different media. From this point of view, a descriptive and interdisciplinary study was developed to analyse the incidence of dubbing in the representation of the characters Frodo, Gandalf and Aragorn in films and videogames based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s works. Bearing in mind the fact that contents in audiovisual texts are simultaneously transferred through the acoustic and visual channels, the analysis focused on the incidence of the signifying codes from the audio and visual channels on dubbing in a corpus selection of audiovisual fragments, relevant to each of the three characters and extracted from three films, two videogames and one short film. Thus, the thesis intends to describe the role of dubbing in the representation of characters in the English-Spanish combination.