Cinema, a vehicle of social transformation sheds light on different aspects of mental illness. Due to its dramatic and stigmatising depictions, it often spreads a negative aspect of psychiatric disorders and the patients who are suffering from them. Though it brings out a few positive and inspiring stories, they are sparse in comparison to its negative views. Here, we are going to describe the ...

BACKGROUND Research suggests that Chinese religious believers are more likely to commit suicide than those identifying as non-religious among rural young adults, contrary to findings in Western countries. However, one cannot conclude that religiosity is associated with elevated suicide risk without examining the effect of political and religious beliefs in a generally atheist country like China...

film theoreticians such as tom gunning, miriam hansen, anne friedberg, leo charney, james donald and giuliana bruno emphasize on the simultaneity of the invention of the cinema and the formation of modern cities in the world. cinema, in effect, seems to have grown up in the context of modern cities. film’s evolution, stirring away from theatrical static space and the single boundary of primitiv...

Background: Traditional and indigenous communities in India are of the religious belief that medicinal groves and plants are sacred in nature. Sacred groves (SGs) are patches of trees on forest land that are protected communally with religious zeal and connotations. These forest areas have been protected since ages by traditional societies and indigenous communities with their socio-cultural an...

The commercial Hindi cinema has been subjected to domestic and foreign criticism for its exceptionally formulaic and stereotypical feature productions. These productions, however, have their sources in the oral and written epics and the popular dramatic genres of traditional Indian culture. Content borrowed from the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, and other pan-Indian tales frequently enlarges and r...

In this ethnography of the public cinema during stronismo (1968-1979) aim is to describe Asuncion, Caaguazú and Coronel Oviedo from general sociodemographic data, reception movies seen between 1968 1979, description way this, organized social activities comprehended notion ritual. Several devices were generated: a film series in three territories, semi structured interviews, polls, analysis aud...

Cinema industry has chosen Digital Cinema Package (DCP) as encoding format for the distribution of digital films. DCP uses JPEG2000 for video compression. An efficient implementation of coding and decoding for this format is complex, however. Currently deployed equipment is expensive and has high maintenance costs, preventing art-house cinema theaters from acquiring it. Therefore, we conduct th...

An effort is underway to enable digital cinema distribution with new products and new standards covering a wide range of technology. Exhibitors, studios, equipment manufacturers, and others involved in this effort require a universal, long-term digital cinema standard. Complicating the drive toward a single standard, however, are two issues: 1) not all players have the same priorities in specif...