Popular movies are spatiotemporal arrays of light and motion, but almost nothing is known about their distributions across whole films. Psychological research shows that the center of the screen is the most important region, but is light and motion most prominent there? I confirm that they are while exploring a sample of 160 movies released from 1935 to 2010. Concerning how light bathes the scr...

OBJECTIVE To compare how smoking was depicted in Hollywood movies before and after an intervention limiting paid product placement for cigarette brands. DESIGN Correlational analysis. SETTING/PARTICIPANTS Top box office hits released in the USA primarily between 1988 and 2011 (n=2134). INTERVENTION The Master Settlement Agreement (MSA), implemented in 1998. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES This st...

meaning is both the reference and the content and their concomitant mental associations. the current research aims to find the meaning of home and its constituents in the everyday life of house residents. in this perspective, we seek to investigate this meaning-making processes through exploring the represented houses in four iranian movies in tehran. therefore, “freeway”, “sealed secret”, “sa’...

" had a higher prevalence than that in the general US population, and not to study whether " movies influence smoking habits of their viewers, " as other authors have done. 2,3 In order to answer our question, we had to exclude films that took place " outside the United States, in earlier times.. . and smoking by United States citizens " because they obviously do not portray the lives of US cit...

be up to date for at least a few months. It does suffer from the deliberate shortcoming of being only a supplement; beginning students of molecular biology will need to read the Supplement side by side with the original text. But for those lucky enough to have already read DNA Replication, this Supplement is not to be missed, especially with a price tag of less than an evening out at the movies.

ONSCREEN SMOKING IS A FORM OF TOBACCO MARKETING Tobacco advertising has been prohibited in New Zealand since 1990, and the government has set a goal of becoming a smokefree nation by 2025. However, tobacco marketing persists indirectly through smoking in motion pictures, and there is strong evidence that exposure to onscreen smoking causes young people to start smoking. We investigated the rela...

A data-integration system provides a uniform interface to a multitude of data sources. Consider a data-integration system providing information about movies from data sources on the World Wide Web. There are numerous sources on the Web concerning movies, such as the Internet Movie Database (which provides comprehensive listings of movies, their casts, directors, genres, and so forth), MovieLink...

idiomatic expressions are considered as a part of everyday language. in other words, they are the essence of each language and one of the most problematic parts to cope with, especially in the process of interlingual translation. furthermore, there is sometimes no one-to-one equivalent for the idioms of the source language (sl) in the target language (tl). this study aimed at investigating the ...

Various studies have focused on language learning by using technology in/outside the classroom. For more investigation, this proposal study examined self-independent English outside classroom; it aims to determine most frequent technological tool that learners preferred, and what is effective online platform. Because of overlap, several published from 2004 up 2021 been reviewed. Self-organized ...

Abstract Subtitling involves constraints about differences between cultures. This requires a set of translation strategies, especially when subtitling from relatively conservative to more liberal study explores subtitlers’ strategies translating the Jordanian Arabic vernacular series Jinn into English. has been selected because it’s Netflix’s first Arabic-Jordanian containing explicit scenes an...