Lan Dong explores in her paper, "Tracing Chinese Gay Cinema 1993-2002" the recent landscape of Chinese gay cinema through discussing the following three feature films: Chen Kaige's Farewell My Concubine (1993), Zhang Yuan's East Palace, West Palace (1996), and Stanley Kwan's Lan Yu (2001). The grouping derives from the concern that they all set their stories in Beijing. Using the capital city a...

In the era of digital globalization, instant exchange information, ideas, data, all traditional genres are undergoing a transformation process. The advent technology has created many opportunities for world documentary narratives. Digital recording and archiving, modern filming technologies, Internet, increasingly expanding communication flows changing both ways, methods techniques creating con...

a comparative analysis of sociological situation and cinematic representation in iranian movies from the 80s: a case study of deep breathmaryam sadat naghibi esfahani, hasan ali pourmand, mahdi keshavarz afsharma student, tarbiat modares university, tehran, [email protected] professor, tarbiat modares university, tehran, [email protected] professor, tarbiat modar...

in cinema, the relationship between art and society is questioned more than other kinds of art. among all diverse approaches studying cinema, the reflection approach- believing cinema is impressed by the society. this approach is a theoretical framework of this research. the main question is how cinema reflected political demands of iranian society from 1995 to 2006. this period is noticeable c...

The JISC funded IRIOS (Integrated Research Input and Output System) project developed a demonstrator integrating research information input (projects) and output (publications) datasets allowing data to be linked and exported in CERIF format. C4D (CERIF for Datasets), extends this platform to manage research datasets as outputs from research projects. Although research datasets vary and are ext...

The overall aim of CERIF for Datasets (C4D) is to develop a framework for incorporating metadata into CERIF (the Common European Research Information Format) such that research organisations and researchers can better discover and make use of existing and future research datasets, wherever they may be held. CERIF provides a standardised way of managing and exchanging research information and ha...

abstract cinema as a social environment provide a basis and special situation in which people can gather together, experience a different relationship and can find a new thinking or behaving approach via watching the movies. by going to cinema people in addition to utilize their leisure time effectively, they gradually shape their attitudes and behaviors based on what they have seen and heard. ...

In this paper, we discuss a part of participatory culture that so far has not received much attention in the academic world; it is the writing and reading of game fan fiction. The focus in this paper is on fan fiction, based on three different games that represent three different game genres: Tetris, StarCraft and Dreamfall: The Longest Journey. The aim is to advance our understanding of how pl...