BACKGROUND In movies, alcohol-related cues are frequently depicted and there is evidence for a link between movie alcohol cues and immediate alcohol consumption. Less is known about factors influencing immediate effects movie alcohol exposure on drinking. The exertion of self-control is thought to be important in avoiding or resisting certain temptations. AIMS The aim of the present study was...

A 38-year-old woman with Down syndrome and mitral valve prolapse presented with 2 weeks of fever and cough. She had presented to an outpatient clinic 1 week earlier and was prescribed empirical antibiotics for a suspected respiratory tract infection. Despite this therapy, she continued to have high spiking fevers and developed a fulminant rash, prompting emergent admission for further evaluatio...

in this article we study the attitudes of iranian cinema audience toward popular films. affected by classic elite cultural theories, popular culture and consumers of popular culture have been humiliated for many years. according to this theories, audience of popular magazines, popular music, popular films and other popular culture products, have been considered as passive victims. cultural stud...

We present a method of automatically constructing a domain-specific Korean sentiment dictionary which can be used to classify the sentiment of online movie reviews. More than 1.18 million online movie reviews with movie ratings ranging between 1 to 4 and 7 to 10 were collected across fourteen different movie genres to calculate the joint probability of a given word and the sentiment of movie re...

AIMS This study uses an experimental design to assess the effects of movie alcohol portrayal on alcohol consumption of young adults while watching a movie. Gender, weekly alcohol use and identification with the movie actor/character were assessed as moderators. DESIGN A two (sex) × two (movie: alcohol or no portrayal of alcohol) between-subject design was used. SETTING Participants watched ...

the aim of this article is to analyze the religious discourses represented in the movie “ketabe qanoon”. in this study mikhail bakhtin’s theory on polyphonic novel is used in which he believes that these novels do not have a univocal voice and instead reflect voices of different social strata. in order to analyze the movie, the methodology of laclau and mouffe is used. findings show that the mo...

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...

The affective responses of audience watching movie are selected and the visual and auditory attributes in movie, which have a significant effect on the affective responses of audience, are measured. The relationship between the movie attributes and affective responses are modeled using regression analysis. Fun of a movie is evaluated based on the audiences’ affective responses and an affective ...