Hollywood has always been a loaded term, one with multiple meanings including studio system, standardised form, global industry, and arguably national cinema. It connotes film stars directors, genres, questions of equity representation. is an easy popular scapegoat for many the issues facing contemporary culture. Though demonstrably most prevalent (and therefore widely accessible) cinema in par...

The article is dedicated to the use of soviet cinema as a historical source in modern Russian historiography. purpose study definition current trends and main streams this field science. author considers some methodological aspects most popular topics raised by researchers, highlighting works perspective. following approaches historiography are distinguished: daily political history particular ...

New light steering projectors in cinema form images by moving light away from dark regions into bright areas of an image. In these systems, the peak luminance of small features can far exceed full screen white luminance. In traditional projectors where light is filtered or blocked in order to give shades of gray (or colors), the peak luminance is fixed. The luminance of chromatic features benef...

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...

Cinema therapy is a creative therapy technique in which a trained psychotherapist uses the films as a therapy tool. According to the film therapist Gary Solomon, cinema therapy is usage of films which have positive effects on people except psychotic disorders. In cinema therapy movies are used by psychiatrists, psychologists, clinical social workers, psychiatric nurses, art therapists, academic...

This paper investigates whether Google Trends search information can improve forecasts of cinema admissions, over and above those based on seasonal patterns in the data. Using monthly data for the UK for the period 2004(1) to 2008(12) we examine various forecasting models that incorporate Google Trends search information. We find clear evidence that Google Trends data on searches relevant to ci...