This study examines the development of video game enjoyment over time. The results of a longitudinal study (N=62) show that enjoyment increases over several sessions. Moreover, results of a multilevel regression model indicate a causal link between the dependent variable video game enjoyment and the predictor variables exploratory behavior, spatial presence, competence, suspense and solution, a...

Abstract This article investigates the role of telephone as both an engine suspense and a metaphorical double cinema in Black Christmas directed by Bob Clark (1974). Employing Michel Chion’s concept acousmatic voice, first explores creating narrative diegetic cohesion. It then how film implicitly establishes pattern resemblance between telephonic cinematic mediums centred on their capacities fo...

Ang Lee's film Lust, Caution blends romance, suspense, politics and spy war. Despite its complicated braided storylines, the camera shots, movements dialogues in it are rather simple concise. Music has become a non-verbal discourse through which myriad of unexpressed inner thoughts is subtly conveyed. Its original scores classical compositions created sorrowful, obscure, heavy atmosphere depict...

Gambling advertising is often permeated by stereotypical portrayals of gender, including those male gamblers as tough and successful. Simultaneously, representations men in other has become increasingly diverse, emotional sexualized, heroic muscular portrayals. This article uses both these bodies research to discuss Swedish sports betting commercials from 2019–2020. It shows that different draw...

OBJECTIVE congenital heart block may develop in the fetus of women with Ro/SSA autoantibodies. The aim of this study was to investigate how women expecting a child with congenital heart block (CHB) experienced their pregnancy and post-partum period. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS women giving birth to a child with CHB in Sweden during 2000-2009 were identified in a population-based manner a...