Stereoscopic cinema has seen a surge of activity in recent years, and for the first time all of the major Hollywood studios released 3-D movies in 2009. This is happening alongside the adoption of 3-D technology for sports broadcasting, and the arrival of 3-D TVs for the home. Two previous attempts to introduce 3-D cinema in the 1950s and the 1980s failed because the contemporary technology was...

The process for requirements elicitation has traditionally been based on textual descriptions or graphical models using UML. While these may have worked for the design of desktop-based systems, we argue, that these notations are not adequate for a dialog with mobile end users, in particular for end users in “blue collar” application domains. We propose an alternative modelling technique “Softwa...

The article analyzes cinema as a subject of sociological analysis. Approaches to the conceptualization term “cinema” are considered, their specificity is revealed. Cinematography presented an art form, mass media and communication, social institution, industry economy. functions role in society highlighted. Particular attention paid features modern cinematography, among which there three main o...

Interactive narratives designed for television and cinema demands new interaction mechanisms. In the TV context, thousands of viewers sharing the same narrative at different places must have the opportunity to interact with ongoing stories. The same requisite is valid for cinema, where the whole audience in the theater must have the opportunity to interact. This paper presents a multi-user natu...

Cinema is an act of representation and it is based on the construction of reality inspired by experience. In Colombia, cinema has not been the product of a structured industry, but rather the effort of some filmmakers who have found different ways of telling stories about topics that are part of the national experience. The armed conflict in Colombia, understood as the confrontation between gov...

Statistical analysis is an important part of an inductive programme of research into film style enabling large groups of films to be analysed, identifying key trends, and identifying changes in film style between groups of films from different countries and time periods. In this paper, the use of shot scales in Hollywood and German cinema between 1910 and 1939 is analysed using linear regressio...

Culture and Explosion de Juri Lotman / LOTMAN, Explosion, édité par Marina Grishakova et traduit du russe Wilma Clark, Berlin ; New York, Mouton Gruyter, 2009, 296 p.. Un article la revue Cygne noir (Cygne noir) diffusée plateforme Érudit.

What is the relationship between computer games and cinema? Spin-off games based on major fi lm franchises are common, especially in genres such as science fi ction, action-adventure and horror. Some games have also made the transition to the big screen, none more prominently than the Tomb Raider series in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001). The potential benefi ts of such tieins are apparent at th...

The purpose of this study was to explore the effectiveness of cinema advertising. Specifically: To quantify the proportion of cinema audiences who had an opportunity to see advertising messages screened prior to a movie; to calculate the number of brands recalled by movie goers exposed to advertising messages; and to detail the level of advertisement recognition displayed by movie goers exposed...