The absent father of Sino-French cinema: contemporary Taiwanese cinema and 1950s French auteurs

10 Contemporary Scottish cinema

In an article in the Scottish cultural magazine, The Drouth, Mark Cousins provocatively bemoaned the lack of a vibrant film culture in Scotland. Putting Iran's cinematic achievements forward as a – perhaps surprising – example, Cousins identifies several reasons for Scotland's underdevelopment, most of which revolve around a lack of experimentation and a general absence of interest in exploring...

Smoking in contemporary American cinema.

OBJECTIVE The true prevalence of smoking among characters portrayed in the movies is unknown. This study examines this prevalence objectively. DESIGN The top 10 movies on the weekly box office charts were reviewed. Whether or not the top five characters in these movies smoked, was documented. It was determined prior to the start of the study that 300 male characters and 300 female characters ...

Early cinema, late cinema: permutations of the public sphere

There tends to be a moment in the development of cultural practices when discourses of the recent past become history; they are no longer just outdated but, like bell-bottom jeans, mini-skirts and platform shoes, acquire historicity. This is what seems to have happened with film theory of the 1970s and early 1980s, particularly as it revolved around the notion of 'the spectator'. I am thinking ...

Development of the Cinema

Children and the Cinema

was appointed by the Home Secretary, the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Minister of Education. The mention of the first and third of these sponsors suggests that the chief enquiry was to discover what effect the cinema had on children?particularly whether it had a bad effect?and this information, one may guess, is what most people would expect from such an enquiry. If this is so, then ...