Late Stalinism, which extended from 1945 to 1953, censored and coerced cinema with an efficiency unknown in the USSR, directing it cultural confrontation American archrival nascent Cold War. While regime demanded political films that showed problems crimes committed by enemy fostered internal unity, filmmakers sought circumvent guidelines insert criticisms subtly, or subject addressed, centered...

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the commonest fatal tumors, and it is usually diagnosed at a late stage, when effective treatment is very difficult. Unfortunately early diagnosis of HCC is almost mandatory in terms of patient survival, but it represents a very difficult task. Detailed histological characteristics of small HCC and precursor lesions in histological diagnosis are needed t...

Stereoscopic cinema has seen a surge of activity in recent years, and for the first time all of the major Hollywood studios released 3-D movies in 2009. This is happening alongside the adoption of 3-D technology for sports broadcasting, and the arrival of 3-D TVs for the home. Two previous attempts to introduce 3-D cinema in the 1950s and the 1980s failed because the contemporary technology was...

Interview with Jackie Brenneman and Bryan Braunlich of the National Association Theater Owners (NATO) The Cinema Foundation, in which they discuss their organizations’ response to COVID-19 pandemic defense US cinema owners. recounts first three years pandemic, including NATO’s initial understandings activities during early weeks pandemic’s spread US. She details role government support programs...

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Lan Dong explores in her paper, "Tracing Chinese Gay Cinema 1993-2002" the recent landscape of Chinese gay cinema through discussing the following three feature films: Chen Kaige's Farewell My Concubine (1993), Zhang Yuan's East Palace, West Palace (1996), and Stanley Kwan's Lan Yu (2001). The grouping derives from the concern that they all set their stories in Beijing. Using the capital city a...

Recent arguments for relativist semantic theories have centered on the phenomenon of “faultless disagreement.” This paper offers independent motivation for such theories, based on the interpretation of predicates of personal taste in certain attitude contexts and presuppositional constructions. It is argued that the correct interpretation falls out naturally from a relativist theory, but requir...