Critics of hypertext have long expressed skepticism about whether people could or indeed ever would sit down at a screen and read hypertexts. They may cite the more general problems of reading from the computer screen (see, for example, [25]) or they may place the blame partially at the feet of the authors (see, for example, Birkerts’ indictment of hypertext fiction [8][2]). Some have even put ...

What are the external repercussions of a representation that is diegetically constructed? How film can be understood by audience? cinema experience able to mobilize? By means research-action method and from perspective Hermeneutics, Cultural Studies theories perception, which places spectator as an active agent in understanding communication process, this article seeks reflect on spectatorship ...

At the 2018 San Sebastian Festival winning film was Entre dos aguas (Isaki Lacuesta, 2018). The Catalan filmmaker constructs a fiction that, however, is also very much self-referential and biographical therefore journalistic (all actors are amateurs who play themselves in film), uses good part of certain documentary visual aesthetic. These actors, turn, had already been protagonists for 12 year...

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...

Postmodern theory and aesthetics have become a frequently discussed phenomenon in almost every field, especially since the 1980s. However, this appear with significant effect, field of literature art. Cinema has special place here. still maintains its existence by increasing effectiveness cinema. One factors that put aesthetic focus current discussions is undoubtedly contributions science ficti...