We propose a variety of Hollywood’s film screenings as a productive tool for phonetic and prosodic research through analysis-by-synthesis. An initial study where the method is used to allow a potential target audience, rather than trained experts, to point out oddities in an extended stretch of connected synthesised speech is presented as proofof-concept.

The United States experienced a 25% unemployment rate in 1929 as result of the Great Depression. More than 5,000 banks announced closure, and more 80,000 businesses filed for bankruptcy direct Everyone was drowning woes being unemployed. However, Hollywood movies provided pastime people who were suffering every day during Although 1930s worst time U.S. economy, it golden age Hollywood. to late ...

Copyright © 2006 Heldref Publications Abstract: This article explores the often contradictory relationship between films and comic book art. Adaptations of superhero comics have reinforced a commercialistic blockbuster mentality among the Hollywood studios. Adaptations of graphic novels have explored alternate visions of visual style and representation. Complications of these polarized effects ...

Der Beitrag entstand im Rahmen der Veranstaltung »eCulture Trends 06: Zukunft entwickeln – Arbeit erfinden«, die am 20. Oktober 2006 von der Projektgruppe eCulture Factory des Fraunhofer IAIS in Bremen veranstaltet wurde.