People watch films on televisions, laptops, tablets, smartphones, and cinema screens. As technologies, each of these screen types provide different opportunities to select particular films, choose when where them. This raises questions about how why people screens the viewing experiences they gain from doing so. To address questions, we draw 200 semi-structured interviews with film audience mem...

Animation has always had its champions. Animators and fans have often proved eager to sing the praises of animation and especially to laud it over and above cinema. To give examples: French animation director René Laloux (2006) famously declared animation to be the true cinema, and in a humourous yet profound essay exploring the ‘evolution’ of Mickey Mouse from adult to juvenile, renowned biolo...

Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures (1994) is the story of two girls in New Zealand who form an intense erotic friendship based on a fantasy world they create, and how their forced separation leads them to commit matricide. Beneath the sensational surface, though, is another story: this is a film about cinema, about desire, and how queer spectators create new and unexpected meanings. This articl...

In the Israeli collective memory, Yom Kippur’s battles in Golan Heights have become synonymous with a long lasting national scar that fails to disappear. Interestingly, until release of Yaron Zilberman’s recent television series Valley Tears (She’at Ne’Ila, 2020), this war, which was traditionally associated pictured northern landscape, had appeared few documentaries, but almost absent from fea...

subject, the ‘i’ who experiences and interacts with the world, constructs fantasies for him(her)self in order to show his(her) imaginary position in social structure. these fantasies have been reproduced in movies narration. furthermore, cinema apparatus sutures audience by ideology within a movie narration. this article attempts to interprete fantasy and ideology in the narration of aghaye- ha...

the cinema is a phenomenon that has opened its way to the societies over the past 100 years, especially in the current era that the pleasure of visual culture has been overcome on benefit, introduced itself to mankind in different forms and formats. therefore, the film industry and producing tv and cinema programs are largely spread by taking advantage of technological growth. because this phen...

“Peep-boxes to Pixels” offers an alternative cross-section of gaming history. Focusing on the dichotomous profiles of the video game arcade in the US and in Japan, the paper traces various cultural and technological planes as they scroll amongst each other in forming the collective zone we call an arcade today. This metaphor I extend by appropriating into my discourse a term that video games ap...

In the last 100 years we have observed a great development of the technology. This development applied to the mass media as the radio, the cinema, the television, or Internet have influence in the human communication and the interaction of the society with the technologies. The new communicative environments need new actors (avatars) with high communicate face expression. The modeling and the a...