This essay explores the multimodal translation of Scottish community oral cultures to cinema through a critical reflection upon aspects production and post-production feature-length documentary film, Mysterious Object. Guided by work cultural studies authors such as James Clifford Stuart Hall, alongside reference cinemas elsewhere in world (such Apichatpong Weerasethakul Thailand, indigenous fi...

Archival images and audiovisual testimony-Negotiating the end of empire in the documentary films Guerra Colonial. Hist6rias de Cam pan ha em Mo~ambique {1998) and Natal71 {1999) 1 ABSTRAa KEYWORDS This article analyses Portuguese documentary films from the 1990s, when public archive discussions about the war of decolonization gained a new dynamic. The video series documentary film Guerra Coloni...

In contrast to the well-established scientific evidence linking negative emotional states (e.g., depression, anxiety, or anger) to increased risk for cardiovascular disease, much less is known about the association between positive emotional states (e.g., laughter, happiness) and cardiovascular health. We determined the effects of mirthful laughter, elicited by watching comic movies, on endothe...

We consider the use of a mobile agent to monitor stochastic, transient events that occur in discrete locations in the environment with the objective of maximizing the number of event observations in a balanced manner. We assume that the events of interest at each station follow a stochastic process with an initially unknown and station-specific rate parameter; Consequently, we are faced with a ...

BACKGROUND In 1948 the first National Film Board (NFB) documentary in Canada about illegal drugs, trafficking, and addiction was produced. The documentary is titled Drug Addict, and was directed by Robert Anderson. This paper provides a socio-historical context for the documentary Drug Addict. Viewing the film through the lens of Canadian history gives readers a better context to understand the...