Looking over the history of cinema from the vantage point of the early twenty-first century, recent research has increasingly highlighted the similarities between the sense of possibility characterizing cinema’s early decades and our own digital era, in which the proliferation of interactive media and variable screen formats has loosened the once dominant paradigm of the passive spectator immob...

the role of media in today´s world is undeniable and no border can be imagined for information transfer. among these, one controversial issue in the media is gender and women. this study examines female subjects in discourse atmosphere of iran´s cinema. it probes their situations and the way of confrontation with them regarding common discourses in two traditional and modernist structures in ir...

cinema is a multidimensional art capable of affecting our neurophysiologic structure in different ways. studies show that different parts of the brain are activated while watching a structured film and consequently, the movie imitates consciousness structure. this imitation of the consciousness structure enables cinema to deeply influence the brain. the effect and its manner are the main themes...

The article engages Hungarian film production between 1945 and 2005 from a twofold perspective. It surveys women’s inclusion in the film-making profession and assesses the representation of women in Hungarian cinema. The study seeks answers to the questions whether state-socialist emancipation rhetoric and policies targeting women’s employment and social inclusion have also affected 1) the doma...