OBJECTIVE This study aimed to examine recent levels of exposure to smoking in movies, how the community perceived the level of smoking they saw in recently-viewed movies and whether there was community support for any form of regulation. METHODS As part of a 2004 New South Wales survey of smoking-related perceptions and practices, 1,154 adults participated in a computer-assisted telephone int...

First coined in the UK early 1990s as a new label for an ostensibly new, post-1979 kind and cycle of period cinema, ‘heritage film’ is now firmly established widely used term category academic film studies. Although heritage film’s defining features, ideological character ontological coherence would remain debated, its status ‘new’ hinges, self-evidently, on presumption that films culturally En...

Cinema is at once a powerful medium, art, entertain­ ment, an industry and an instrument of social change; psychiatrists should neither ignore nor censor it. Representations of psychiatrists are mixed but psychiatric treatments are rarely portrayed posi tively. In this article, five rules of movie psychiatry are proposed, supported by over 370 films. Commercial and artistic pressures reduce ver...

the role of media in today´s world is undeniable and no border can be imagined for information transfer. among these, one controversial issue in the media is gender and women. this study examines female subjects in discourse atmosphere of iran´s cinema. it probes their situations and the way of confrontation with them regarding common discourses in two traditional and modernist structures in ir...