T he world continues to have a passion for movies. Moviegoers worldwide spent $20.3 billion and purchased 8.6 billion admission tickets to see films in 2003. 2002 was a record breaking year at the UK box office, with 176 million cinema admissions, £755 million in total box office receipts, and 369 films released. In the USA in 2003, there were 1.6 billion cinema admissions, $9.5 billion in box ...

Over the past few years, the subject of movies getting louder has generated increasing concern within the film production community. In addition, it has become commonplace for movie-goers to claim that movies are too loud. Many theatres now project films at an audio fader setting below the calibration setting that would match that in the dubbing theatre, presumably because of audience complaints.

Movie directors and designers of displays for process control have one thing in common: they must display the inner state of a complex system in an understandable way to a group of spectators/operators that do not have direct access to the interior of the system. The paper redefines the three basic filmic units, cut, scene and sequence, and presents five topics from film theory that may give in...

As one of the most potent and substantial form of mass communication, film exercises a very significant influence upon the perceptions of the audience, especially in relation to mental illness issues, and that perception is very much blurred with populists' misinterpretation and lack of awareness regarding problems faced by persons suffering from mental disorders. Movies such as "Psycho", "One ...