This article explores the intersection between geopolitics, international relations and film. The first section examines how popular geopolitics and related areas of International Relations have engaged with film and Hollywood. Thereafter, it considers the interrelationship between Hollywood, the Bush administration and the post-9/11 era in an attempt to better understand some of the contours o...

Rachel Gunn explores the indigenization of Hollywood genres, specifically the adaptation of the horror genre in a Canadian contest. Conflicts of nation intersect with those of gender as Gunn discusses the ways in which both John Fawcett’s Ginger Snaps (2000) and David Cronenberg’s film Dead Ringers (1988) invert the traditionally masculine horror genre by interrogating the concept of the monstr...

This paper presents the work done at Technicolor regarding the MediaEval 2016 Predicting Media Interestingness Task, which aims at predicting the interestingness of individual images and video segments extracted from Hollywood movies. We participated in both the image and video subtasks.

This study analyzed the romantic content of a sample of 40 romantic comedy films using a basic grounded theory methodology. Analyses revealed that such films appear to depict romantic relationships as having qualities of both new and long-term relationships; that is, to be both novel and exciting, yet emotionally significant and meaningful. Furthermore, relationships were shown to have both hig...

The booming Chinese film industry has been attracting the attention of Hollywood investors looking to cooperate with mainland partners to cash in on the fastest growing film market in the world. Nowhere is this more evident than in Shanghai’s animation industry, where companies such as Disney and DreamWorks are looking for a point of entry that allows for broader corporate expansion into China....

We use data on a movie’s stock price as it trades on the Hollywood Stock Exchange, a popular online market simulation, to study the impact of movie advertising. We find that advertising has a positive and statistically significant effect on expected revenues, but that the effect varies strongly across movies of different ‘‘quality’’. The point estimate implies that the returns to advertising fo...