Cinema of The Other Europe

The Demand for Cinema in Europe: Is Vat Harmonization Desiderable?

There exists an ongoing debate on the necessity to reduce and harmonise VAT on cultural goods across Europe. The purpose of this paper is to provide new insights on this issue by simulating the effects of three different VAT regimes on movie consumption and tax revenues across Europe. To this aim we first estimate the movie demand by applying a modified version of the Becker and Murphy (1988)’s...

Early cinema, late cinema: permutations of the public sphere

There tends to be a moment in the development of cultural practices when discourses of the recent past become history; they are no longer just outdated but, like bell-bottom jeans, mini-skirts and platform shoes, acquire historicity. This is what seems to have happened with film theory of the 1970s and early 1980s, particularly as it revolved around the notion of 'the spectator'. I am thinking ...

Development of the Cinema

The Myth of Total Cinema

Paradoxically enough, the impression left on the reader by Georges Sadoul's admirable book on the origins of the cinema is of a reversal, in spite of the author's Marxist views, of the relations between an economic and technical evolution and the imagination of those carrying on the search. The way things happened seems to call for a reversal of the historical order of causality, which goes fro...

Assessment of the Nurse Image in Iranian Cinema

Introduction:Nursing is a profession that requires a positive view of society and governments for growth and excellence. Providing a distorted or populist image of the profession can have negative consequences for health care providers. This article aims to explain the image of nurses in Iranian cinema in the last three decades. Methods: This content analysis study was conducted in 1398 in Semn...