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...

The article studies the possibility of translating a video game into other types media, as well reverse process. Research results received within framework narratological theory games and ludological are used methodological ground. authors rely on concept translation presented in works B. Latour. main provisions conclusions formulated by comparing approaches to problem transferring media (cinem...

Interactive narratives designed for television and cinema demands new interaction mechanisms. In the TV context, thousands of viewers sharing the same narrative at different places must have the opportunity to interact with ongoing stories. The same requisite is valid for cinema, where the whole audience in the theater must have the opportunity to interact. This paper presents a multi-user natu...

Statistical analysis is an important part of an inductive programme of research into film style enabling large groups of films to be analysed, identifying key trends, and identifying changes in film style between groups of films from different countries and time periods. In this paper, the use of shot scales in Hollywood and German cinema between 1910 and 1939 is analysed using linear regressio...

Models of cinema demand have tended to employ aggregate data and focus on price and income as key variables. Surprisingly, the effects of travel time and location have not been formally investigated. The authors do so, following developments in the environmental economics literature, by presenting estimates of individual travel cost models for multiplex and nonmultiplex cinemas. A key finding i...

Observational cinema is one of the most controversial forms of visual anthropology. After its inception in the 1970s, it was initially praised as a breakthrough in ethnographic filmmaking. However, since then it has suffered years of neglect and heavy criticism, mostly directed at its naïvité, alleged scientism and illusion of objectivity. The time has finally come for a revision of those claim...

presently, the culture of economics in somecountries is given top priority against other sectors of civilian economics. this importantis not only due to the economical values of culture but also due to the outmost importanteffects which are able to boost the civilian economics both direct and indirect. in iranalso, the culture economics has its own specific importance and it includes industries...