Popular movies present chunk-like events (scenes and subscenes) that promote episodic, serial updating of viewers' representations of the ongoing narrative. Event-indexing theory would suggest that the beginnings of new scenes trigger these updates, which in turn require more cognitive processing. Typically, a new movie event is signaled by an establishing shot, one providing more background in...

A scene can be defined as one of the subdivisions of a play in which the setting is fixed, or when it presents continuous action in one place. We propose a novel two-pass algorithm for scene boundary detection which utilizes the motion content, shot length and color properties of shots as the features. In our approach, shots are first clustered by computing Backward Shot Coherence (BSC); a shot...

Teenagers cruising up and down the main boulevard looking for fun and romance is nothing new. Started in the 1950s, cruising has since become entrenched in American society, where fancy cars are a status symbol. Glamorized by Hollywood in movies such as "American Graffiti, cruising has become a rite of passage for todays youths. Though enjoyable for teens, cruising has always been a problem for...

This paper is about some misgivings I harbor over some recent linguistics publications on language endangerment, i.e., the process whereby a language loses grounds to another either because it is spoken by fewer and fewer speakers and/or because it is heavily influenced by the competitor, which its speakers seem to command or like better. The targets of my criticisms include Crystal (2000, 2004...

This paper studies the image of Latinos in the United States of Americathrough the Hollywood films production by the well-known Mexican director,AlejandroGonz?lez I??rritu. Using content analysis of the Latinos characters in the threefilms directed by him and in collaboration with screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga, thepresent paper examines the masculinity frame to see whether the Latinos areportr...

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...

In this paper we consider videos (e.g. Hollywood movies) and their accompanying natural language descriptions in the form of narrative sentences (e.g. movie scripts without timestamps). We propose a method for temporally aligning the video frames with the sentences using both visual and textual information, which provides automatic timestamps for each narrative sentence. We compute the similari...

Unlike more celebrated Hollywood-on-Hollywood films, Walter Wanger’s neglected screwball comedy Stand-In (1937) emphasizes the centrality of labour to studio-era production. Besides climaxing with a highly unusual, if carefully negotiated spectacle industrial action by Hollywood’s rank and file workers, film departs further from other self-reflexive movies defining stardom in relation gender fo...

This study is an attempt to reveal the effect of sounds on meaning form (word) that they formulate. A contrastive phonosemantic made four historical epic, action, comic and romantic movies’ titles show how can reflect associate with feelings, emotions attitudes. The Universal Theory Agrawal suggested used as a model in this study. results are meaning-bearing elements. Furthermore; events their ...