T Discovery Channel documentary Mosquito, worldwide premiere scheduled for July 6, 2017, is an excellent film intended to educate those who are unaware of the dangers posed by mosquitoes worldwide. Well, not exactly. Mosquitoes themselves pose no great dangers to humans, livestock, or wildlife. It is the viruses or other potential pathogens that mosquitoes carry and can transmit that are the da...

The primary goal of developing this model will be to facilitate the characterization of tools and standards for digital linguistic resources with respect to the entire documentary and descriptive process in order to (i) help researchers avoid duplicating the work of others unnecessarily and (ii) ensure that linguistics, as a discipline, does not accidentally focus on particularly salient domain...

Background Despite the rapid increase in the size of the geriatric population, no current published literature is available based on the effects of viewing a documentary covering medical and psychosocial issues concerning older adults influencing young people's empathy and ageism. The aim of the current study was to test whether participants who viewed an original documentary about older adults...

This article explores the impact of cross-border collaboration on independent Chinese documentary. Through a study Wang Jiuliang’s Plastic China, I argue that film, which passed through training events run by CNEX and Sundance Institute’s Documentary Film Programme in bears formal industrial-humanitarian logic central to these workshops: character-driven storytelling as key generating global An...