This article looks into the transportation of the Chinese epic wuxia 武俠martial arts genre to Korean cinema and asks how the genre changed when it became the muhy̆op武俠 of Korean cinema. In this paper, I intend to look behind the Korean version of the wuxia genre and tackle some of the questions it raises. How should we look at these movies with often intensely nationalist content, which at the sa...

The paper offers a reading of Jason’s use sparsity, seriousness, and reduction as concealment technique that is based on multifaceted ambiguity involving the blending genres, playfully intertextual attitude, surprising emotional depth character story. It discusses connection between humour visual, textual, structural in works, well ambivalence reader’s response, illustrates combination incongru...

Several studies indicate that exposure to suicide in movies is linked to subsequent imitative suicidal behavior, so-called copycat suicides, but little is currently known about whether the link between exposure to suicidal movies and suicidality is reflected in individual film preferences. 943 individuals participated in an online survey. We assessed associations between preferred film genres a...

In this research, we investigate the relationship between a movie’s gross and its budget, year of release, season genre, rating. The movie data used in research are severely skewed to right, resulting problems nonlinearity, non-normal distribution, non-constant variance error terms. To overcome these difficulties, employ Gaussian copula marginal regression (GCMR) model after adjusting budget va...

Making decision on which movie to watch is nowadays not an easy process for majority of people. Many people may decide to watch a movie based on the genre attribute of a movie, while for the others, the director can be the attribute that drives them to watch a movie. Hence, people may have di↵erent features, taken into account, when deciding which movie to watch. Recommender Systems can help pe...

Cruickshank and Collins [2] ‘Advancing Leadership in Sport: Time to Take Off the Blinkers?’ has created something of a furore around the effectiveness and suitability of dark leadership traits and behaviours. This paper attempts to clarify some of the conceptual issues discussed within their paper, while also redressing a number of literary misrepresentations. Finally, the potential limitations...

People spend considerable amounts of time and money listening to music, watching TV and movies, and reading books and magazines, yet almost no attention in psychology has been devoted to understanding individual differences in preferences for such entertainment. The present research was designed to examine the structure and correlates of entertainment genre preferences. Analyses of the genre pr...

This paper examines genre trends in the top 50 grossing films at the US box office each year from 1991 to 2010, focussing on the frequency and rank of different genres, the box office gross and release patterns of films in different genres, and the release profile of Hollywood studios. The results show a narrowing of the range of genres at the highest rankings, with fantasy/science fiction movi...

We address the issue of automatic video genre retrieval. We propose three categories of content descriptors, extracted at temporal, color and structural level. At temporal level, video content is described with visual rhythm, action content and amount of gradual transitions. Colors are globally described with statistics of color distribution, elementary hues, color properties and relationship. ...

With the advent of image age, popularity war-themed film and television dramas in new century has promoted a wave thematic narratives. Facing era computer graphics, main theme narrative adopts series reconstruction strategies, namely: spectacle strategy visual expression, typification subjects, striation character modelling. As an important genre Chinese movies, themed movies often focus on edu...