This chapter aims to illustrate the relationship between sociocultural globalisation and body image – globalising mechanisms appear to disseminate the Western standard of female and male beauty. Thus, the combination of ubiquitous messages for eating behaviours and beauty in both advertising and mass media programming may lead to confusion and body image dissatisfaction amongst many young peopl...

This manuscript investigates the facts of publication of the images of the Nanking Atrocity (December 1937–January 1938) in LIFE and LOOK magazines, two widely read United States publications, as well as the Nanking atrocity film clips that circulated to millions more in American and Canadian newsreels some years later. The publishers of these images were continuing the art of manipulation of p...

We consider dynamic scenes consisting of moving points whose motion is constrained to happen in one of a pencil of planes. This is for example the case when rigid objects move independently, but on a common ground plane (each point moves in one of a pencil of planes parallel to the ground plane). We consider stereo pairs of the dynamic scene, taken by a moving stereo system, that allow to obtai...