Theatricality and Cultural Critique in Chinese Cinema

Critique of Research Books (Art)/ On Cinematic Frames: regarding the publication of De-Framing: Essays on Painting and Cinema, Mehrdad Pur Alam

Shen and Cinema in 1930s Shanghai

In her article "Shen (1904-1940) film 十字街頭 (1937) (Crossroads Hollywood and Soviet cinema in 1930s explores the transcultural and transmedial possibilities and potentials in the in the 1930s and the unruly energy and unique aesthetic characteristics embedded in the process of creative mimesis and transplantation. While in the paradoxical attitude toward US-American and Soviet films, Chinese fil...

Tracing Chinese Gay Cinema 1993-2002

Lan Dong explores in her paper, "Tracing Chinese Gay Cinema 1993-2002" the recent landscape of Chinese gay cinema through discussing the following three feature films: Chen Kaige's Farewell My Concubine (1993), Zhang Yuan's East Palace, West Palace (1996), and Stanley Kwan's Lan Yu (2001). The grouping derives from the concern that they all set their stories in Beijing. Using the capital city a...

Sociological Study of Factors Affecting Consumption of Cinema (Case Study: Young Girls and Boys in Sari)

Based on the data provided by the cultural authorities in the past 20 years, about 40 million audiences of cinema in Iran have been fallen. In other words, Iranians, on average, are spending only 15 minutes in a year at cinemas. The main objective of this study was to investigate this fact hence Bourdieu's theory was utilized to study the effects of social, cultural and economic capitals on cin...

تحلیل و بررسی عوامل مؤثر بر تقاضای سینما؛ مطالعه موردی: سینما در شهر زنجان

Arts can be counted as a base for evolution of culture that causes the growth and flowering of society and its people. The observations indicate that the artistic and cultural activities can have a considerable contribution to the economy. Comparing with other artistic and cultural productions, Cinema with its special characteristics can play an important role in economics of arts. During two r...