This study focuses on the role of award competitions in shaping market competition in the media industry. The basic premise is that there exists no uniform relationship between winning media awards and market performance. Instead, the effects of award competitions can be moderated by prize and jury characteristics, product characteristics, customer characteristics, and the (anticipation) strate...

There have been few siudies ofthe concept af "dotihle jeopardy " as il pertains to the effects of gender and aging on occupational outcomes. This research examines the utility of this concept in the field of film acting, traditionally a gender-integrated occupation. The results confirm significant negative effects of heing female and being older on the number of fihn roles received by actors an...

Spread-spectrum (SS) communications technology was first described on paper by an actress and a musician! In 1941, Hollywood actress Hedy Lamarr and pianist George Antheil described a secure radio link to control torpedos and received U.S. patent #2.292.387. It was not taken seriously at that time by the U.S. Army and was forgotten until the 1980s, when the came alive, and has become increasing...

Unlike more celebrated Hollywood-on-Hollywood films, Walter Wanger’s neglected screwball comedy Stand-In (1937) emphasizes the centrality of labour to studio-era production. Besides climaxing with a highly unusual, if carefully negotiated spectacle industrial action by Hollywood’s rank and file workers, film departs further from other self-reflexive movies defining stardom in relation gender fo...

Hero has constantly been an important theme of American commercial movies, which have been swarming into every corner of the world. Those movies focusing on heroism have already become the dominance of modern movie market. Individual heroism as the logo of commercial movies has become the quintessence and soul of Hollywood movies. Just as the freedom and democracy characterize the United States...

This paper studies the image of Latinos in the United States of Americathrough the Hollywood films production by the well-known Mexican director,AlejandroGonz?lez I??rritu. Using content analysis of the Latinos characters in the threefilms directed by him and in collaboration with screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga, thepresent paper examines the masculinity frame to see whether the Latinos areportr...

We propose a novel human-centric approach to detect and localize human actions in challenging video data, such as Hollywood movies. Our goal is to localize actions in time through the video and spatially in each frame. We achieve this by first obtaining generic spatiotemporal human tracks and then detecting specific actions within these using a sliding window classifier. We make the following c...

This study examines contemporary Hollywood by focusing on films made between 1990 and 2010. With chapters on the double, war trauma, the undead, and automata, I delineate evidence of the uncanny within individual films along with the underlying contradictions that symptomatically respond to the larger economic conditions and industrial practices that shape the contemporary period. Each of the f...

We examine the assertion that the two-parameter lognormal distribution is an appropriate parametric model for the shot length distributions of Hollywood films. A review of the claims made in favour of assuming lognormality for shot length distributions finds them to be lacking in methodological detail and statistical rigour. We find there is no supporting evidence to justify the assumption of l...

Cinematic tradition suggests that Hollywood films, like plays, are divided into acts. Thompson (1999) streamlined the conception of this largescale film structure by suggesting that most films are composed of four acts of generally equal length—the setup, the complicating action, the development, and the climax (often including an epilog). These acts are based on the structure of the narrative,...