One of the main issues in hypertext is what we would like to call “discourse shaping”. The possibility of providing or recognising discourse coherence in the interactive medium has a lot to do with the possibility that authoring environments offer to shape the hypertext discourse. The answer of spatial hypertext to this problem is ‘visual’ shape [11,12]. Its peculiarity and strength is that it ...

e vast majority of literature devoted to independent cinema focuses on American fi lm production. When I was looking for books on independent cinema in my university library, out of about twenty fi ve, I identifi ed twenty or so devoted exclusively to American cinema. For the majority of scholars and students, using the term “independent” means independent from Hollywood, not only in terms of f...

In the entertainment industry’s quest for the “suspension of disbelief,” two primary sensory stimuli have been engaged: sight and sound. Since the advent of digital audio, a number of new multitrack digital sound formats have appeared in the motion picture industry, all in an attempt to achieve the ultimate audio experience. However, visual presentation has not advanced at the same pace as the ...

Cinematic adaptations of videogames are an increasingly common feature film culture, and the adaptive relationship between these mediums is subject videogame studies. However, our ability to historicize theorize that hampered by a failure fully define generic character object study. This essay asks, what movie? It argues scholars (1) have not considered full range ways been represented in film;...

Cinematography relies on a rich vocabulary of shots and framing parameters to communicate narrative event structures. This cinematic vocabulary stems from the physical capabilities of camera movement and uses aesthetic aspects to engage the audience and influence audience comprehension. At present, automatic physical camera control is limited in cinematic vocabulary. Virtual cameras, on the oth...

Beginning with classic Hollywood melodramas of the 1940s, cinema has maintained a prolific output of films with their own take on mental illnesses-none more so than the rare syndrome of dissociative identity disorder (DID). DID films are a popular and enduring genre, whose influence can be seen throughout mainstream cinema. Exploration of DID in cinema is a useful exercise in that it touches on...

Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari are among the names who contributed to development of film philosophy with nomadic thought. In this process, thinkers explain thought through concepts have benefited from various such as rhizome, deterritorialization, becoming, movement image, time body without organs. Within scope study, aforementioned were discussed in context Özcan Alper's The Festival Troub...