Many movies released in Tamil have portrayed transgenders mostly as scenes for ridicule. In the guise of comedy, films been portraying transgender people with insults, double entendres and sexual scenes. Some like Bombay, Thenavattu, Chithiram Pesutadi, Naan kadavul show a dignified manner. From 1977’s Balabhishekam to 2017’s sivappu enakku pidikkum, this review examines film. Transgender are t...

Copyright law must strike a delicate balance between the long-term need to encourage innovation and the short-term use of work already created (Arnold Plant, 1934; William D. Nordhaus, 1969). This balance depends on the extent to which stronger copyright protection actually stimulates creative activity, which in turn depends on two effects. One is the impact of copyright on the income of author...

OBJECTIVE Despite voluntary restrictions prohibiting direct and indirect cigarette marketing to youth and paid product placement, tobacco use remains prevalent in movies. This article presents a systematic review of the evidence on the nature and effect of smoking in the movies on adolescents (and others). METHODOLOGY We performed a comprehensive literature review. RESULTS We identified 40 ...

this research was conducted with the aim of identifying the gender identity of women in the movies of war period. four movies of ‘bashu little stranger’, ‘gilaneh’ and ‘from karkhe to the rhine’ were selected and the kinds of women's identity were identified by using discourse analysis in these movies. in these movies, although women tried to fulfill the expectations of society in the form...

The automatic extraction of verb-particle constructions (VPCs) is of particular interest to the NLP community. Previous studies have shown that word alignment methods can be used with parallel corpora to successfully extract a range of multi-word expressions (MWEs). In this paper the technique is applied to a new type of corpus, made up of a collection of subtitles of movies and television seri...

We report a study of word meaning that tests whether dynamical aspects of movies predict word use. The movies were based on a novel representation of verb semantics called maps for verbs. We asked preschool-school-age children to describe the movies, and demonstrated that their distributions of words could be predicted by the dynamical aspects of the movies. These results lend support to the em...

Generating personalized movie recommendations to users is a problem that most commonly relies on user-movie ratings. These ratings are generally used either to understand the user preferences or to recommend movies that users with similar rating patterns have rated highly. However, movie recommenders are often subject to the ColdStart problem: new movies have not been rated by anyone, so, they ...

BACKGROUND Exposure to smoking in movies has been linked with adolescent smoking initiation in cross-sectional studies. We undertook a prospective study to ascertain whether exposure to smoking in movies predicts smoking initiation. METHOD We assessed exposure to smoking shown in movies in 3547 adolescents, aged 10-14 years, who reported in a baseline survey that they had never tried smoking....