Exclusive Quality – Why Exclusive Distribution May Benefit the TV Viewers* Sports organizations, Hollywood studios and TV channels grant satellite and cable networks exclusive rights to televise their matches, movies and media contents. Exclusive distribution prevents viewers from watching attractive programs, and reduces the TV-distributors incentives to compete in prices. This paper demonstra...

Narratives on state and power are constructed propagated through events such as the Platinum Jubilee, with all its grandeur, pomp glory, stories of British military superiority, well popular fictions Hollywood films, latest which builds usual war narratives heroism, risk sacrifice, while concealing realities weakness, decline risk-free wars. The rise high-tech assassins in drone warfare, heavil...

This paper describes the LIG participation to the MediaEval 2011 Affect Task on violent scenes’ detection in Hollywood movies. We submitted only the required run (shot classification run) with a minimal system using only the visual information. Color, texture and SIFT descriptors were extracted from key frames. The performance of our system was below the performance of the systems using both au...

Troubles-based crime thrillers were once a staple of Hollywood cinema in the 1990s. However, these types films have become something subgenre European last few decades given that produced over period all been and financed by either United Kingdom, Ireland, France or Germany. Owing to both financial critical success films, relative other about Northern more market-driven approach adopted policym...