tech-noir cinema emerged as the combination of noir film and science-fiction genre in 1980s. noir film, which was one of the main currents of american cinema in 1940s, was influenced by detective fiction of american literature and expressionist cinema of germany in plot and form respectively. in 1970s and 1980s, because of artistic and social currents, there was a ground to return to noir; so n...

urban design, being concerned with the quality of built environment, requires close interaction with other disciplines such as urban planning, environmental design and architecture as well as sociology, psychology, and economics. this is necessary in order to appropriately recognize and analyze different dimensions of existing problems and provide solutions to them and to improve the quality of...

natural light is one kind of light which its main resources are sun and starts. philosophers and researchers believe that spiritual and holy light not only includes material and quantified aspect, but also because of its non-physical properties always treats as a spiritual connector between god and man. light is the main part of existing which not only contacts to the surface of objects, but it...

film theoreticians such as tom gunning, miriam hansen, anne friedberg, leo charney, james donald and giuliana bruno emphasize on the simultaneity of the invention of the cinema and the formation of modern cities in the world. cinema, in effect, seems to have grown up in the context of modern cities. film’s evolution, stirring away from theatrical static space and the single boundary of primitiv...

abstract film theoreticians, in the early stages of practice, emphasized the corporeal characteristics of the medium and the relationship between cinema and the spectator’s senses. besides, in the opposite direction to the early cinema concentration on audience bodily identification with the film, the evolution of cinematic language and the subsequent prevailing of a dominant narrative system, ...

This study examines the characteristics of the Japanese imagination of outer space inconjunction with its representations in television and cinema during the late 1960s.Cinema and television have offered the Japanese many films and television programs inthe form of dramas, news programs, documentaries, and variety shows on the topics ofspace, the space race, space flight, and as...

‘If cinema does not give us the presence of the body and cannot give it to us, this is perhaps also because it sets itself a different objective: it spreads an “experimental night” or a white space over us; it works with “dancing seeds’ and a “luminous dust”; it affects the visible with a fundamental disturbance, and the world with a suspension, which contradicts all natural perception. What it...