In post-communist Russia the state has been supporting production of historical films reflecting official politics memory, in which primacy is given to victory World War II. Often filmed Ukraine, where national cinema industry was nearly extinct until recently, these project an imperial stereotype modern Ukrainian identity as a fake and patriots traitors. contrast, patriotic war narrative only ...

The Iranian film represented by White Balloon includes a series of elements such as colonialism, class, race, sex and gender in the third cinema. Religious culture makes films not only contain humanitarian concerns, but also become representative ideology. description women’s survival dilemma displacement Hazara reflects complexity social environment. Under strict censorship, directors cast the...

Film music in postmodernism can be seen as applied that together with text and images creates a film narrative[1]. In relation to the theory at very beginning of art period classical theory, postmodern era perceives all disciplines make equally important. When we look this context, notice directors have often used it narrative tool, but decipher semantic aspect music, recipient needs prior know...

INTRODUCTION There is increasing international interest in universal, health promoting services for pregnancy and the first three years of life and the concept of proportionate universalism. Drawing on a narrative review of literature, this paper explores mechanisms by which such services might contribute to health improvement and reducing health inequalities. OBJECTIVES Through a narrative r...

most of iranian comedy films, before and after the revolution, can be categorized as romantic comedies. these films depict romantic relationship between men and women as a funny incident and constitute the iranian romantic comedy genre. drawing on genre theory, this paper aims at understanding the relationship between the romantic comedy’s heroes and heroines with their friends, and at finding ...

This paper seeks to elucidate the temporal characteristics of discourse by considering the narrative movie as an illustration of a medium wherein continuity editing techniques of films are used and that is characterized by the rhythmic structure of well-formed conversation. The object of analysis is the film “Late Autumn” directed by Yasujiro Ozu in 1960. The film was segmented into shots and s...

Mainstream cognitive neuroscience has begun to accept the idea of embodied mind, which assumes that the human mind is fundamentally constituted by the dynamical interactions of the brain, body, and the environment. In today's paradigm of naturalistic neurosciences, subjects are exposed to rich contexts, such as video sequences or entire films, under relatively controlled conditions, against whi...

simplistic notions of ‘fidelity’ to an ‘original’ text. In 1975, Geoffrey Wagner formulated three categories of filmic adaptation: ‘transposition’, a direct transfer to screen with minimum apparent interference; ‘commentary’, which retains the core structure despite some alteration or reinterpretation; and ‘analogy’, which involves a significant departure from the source text in order to create...