O artigo interpreta Era uma Vez em... Hollywood, de Tarantino, através postura que, inspirada na crítica imanente Benjamin, discute a estética numa sociedade industrializada, em busca critérios que permitam sua interpretação. Busca-se indicar modo Tarantino se concentra traços certos gêneros usualmente menosprezados, construindo seu cinema partir desses restos. texto aponta problemáticas comuns...

How much can film viewers identify with an on-screen character from a different race, gender, or class? Film theorists such as Manthia Diawara, Judith Mayne, and belle hooks have identified several problematic issues dealing with the relationship of race and spectatorship. One of the most important is the paradox presented to people of color in traditional Hollywood narrative when, as spectator...

0167-8655/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier B.V. A doi:10.1016/j.patrec.2011.05.001 ⇑ Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected] (L. Shao) Content-based video retrieval is an increasingly popular research field, in large part due to the quickly growing catalogue of multimedia data to be found online. Even though a large portion of this data concerns humans, however, retrieva...

Building on recent research emphasizing how legitimacy depends on consensus among audiences about candidates’ characteristics and activities, we examine the relationship between cultural producers’ (candidates) position in the social structure and the consecration of their creative work by relevant audiences. We argue that the outcome of this process of evaluation in any cultural field, whether...

The movie industry is a multi-billion dollar industry, generating approximately $10 billion of revenue annually. In recent years, movies have generally become divided into two categories: blockbusters and independent movies. Studios have focused on relying on only a handful of extremely expensive movies every year to make sure they remain profitable. It is estimated that 80% of the industry’s p...

Adults with intellectual/developmental disability (IDD), and their occupational participation, are vastly under-represented in Hollywood films. Because films often provide individuals’ only experience of people with IDD, cinematic representations can influence audience perceptions. Thus, films can help inform public perceptions about desired and appropriate occupational participation for people...

Growth dynamic of real networks because of emerging complexities is an open and interesting question. Indeed it is not realistic to ignore history impact on the current events. The mystery behind that complexity could be in the role of history in some how. To regard this point, the average effect of history has been included by a kernel function in differential equation of Barabási Albert (BA) ...

This article presents a general theory of the film spectator from a cognitive perspective. This perspective considers Thagard’s (2000) notion of ‘striving for coherence’ as the most appropriate description of spectators’ mental dispositions toward feature films; it regards Fauconnier & Turner’s (2002) theory of Mental Spaces and Conceptual Blending as the most comprehensive account of human mea...