As the contemporary heirs of popular music or cinema, computer games are gradually taking over the markets of entertainment. Much like cinema and music, computer games are taking the spotlight in another front – that which blames them for encouraging unethical behaviors. Apparently, computer games turn their users into blood thirsty zombies with a computer game learnt ability of aiming with dea...

this research entitled “new south korean cinema” deals with a kind of genre bending in new film industry of south korea; a wide-ranging analysis of one of the world's most important contemporary film industries, new korean cinema adopts a cross-cultural and multi-dimensional perspective and provides a comprehensive overview of the production, circulation and reception of modern south korea...

Let’s remember the idea of the film spectator. The projective systems of artistic creation have always tried a “place” for its spectator. In the cinema furthermore, the exhibit’s own structure proposes the spectator as an indispensable element of the cinematographic act, developing a hegemonic model, in which it occupies a central and essential position. As Müsterberg stated, the cinema works i...

The Iranian film represented by White Balloon includes a series of elements such as colonialism, class, race, sex and gender in the third cinema. Religious culture makes films not only contain humanitarian concerns, but also become representative ideology. description women’s survival dilemma displacement Hazara reflects complexity social environment. Under strict censorship, directors cast the...

CardioVascular Research Center, GeneSys Research Institute, Boston, MA, USA Cardiovascular Division, Steward St Elizabeth’s Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA *Corresponding author. GeneSys Research Institute, 736 Cambridge Street, CBR-340, Brighton, MA 02135, USA. Tel: +1-617-789-3143; Fax: +1-617-562-7943; Email: [email protected], da...

To judge by contemporary cinema—think of Lars von Trier’s Melancholia (2011), or Terrence Malick’s To the Wonder (2012)—the claims of obsolescence as regards Wagner read like a chronicle of an end foretold. Aesthetic and political ambivalence, however, still remains the hallmark of Wagner’s aural effect, no matter how innocent the uses of his music (in cinema or elsewhere) might currently sound...

e vast majority of literature devoted to independent cinema focuses on American fi lm production. When I was looking for books on independent cinema in my university library, out of about twenty fi ve, I identifi ed twenty or so devoted exclusively to American cinema. For the majority of scholars and students, using the term “independent” means independent from Hollywood, not only in terms of f...

Cinema therapy is a creative therapy technique in which a trained psychotherapist uses the films as a therapy tool. According to the film therapist Gary Solomon, cinema therapy is usage of films which have positive effects on people except psychotic disorders. In cinema therapy movies are used by psychiatrists, psychologists, clinical social workers, psychiatric nurses, art therapists, academic...

This paper investigates whether Google Trends search information can improve forecasts of cinema admissions, over and above those based on seasonal patterns in the data. Using monthly data for the UK for the period 2004(1) to 2008(12) we examine various forecasting models that incorporate Google Trends search information. We find clear evidence that Google Trends data on searches relevant to ci...