Although the UK and US were staunch allies before and during the Iraq War, differing sociopolitical milieus existed within the countries regarding support for the war. This cross-national content analysis compared stories on antiwar protest by leading newspapers in each country to determine if the differing sociopolitical environments were reflected in each nation’s press coverage. Results indi...

cinema as a cultural industry, is the promoter of identity, memory, dreams and collective projects. mexico has introduced its collective identity to the world, using this industry. examining the application of this industry in mexican cinema can be considered an important step for improving the country’s cinema. approaches to the origins of modern nations consider culture as a fundamental const...

Films which have been exclusively distributed and exhibited outside the traditional conception of the film theatre or cinema have gained very little critical attention within film and media studies. In the case of domestic formats such as VHS this can be partly explained by the fact that, as Barbara Klinger notes, ‘film exhibition via television in the casual setting of the home still appears t...

William Shakespeare has been part of the cinema since 1899. In the twentieth century almost a thousand films in some way based upon his plays were made, but the vast majority of those which sought to faithfully present his plays to the cinema audience failed at the box office. Since the start of the twenty-first century only one English language film using Shakespeare’s text has made a profit, ...

Let’s remember the idea of the film spectator. The projective systems of artistic creation have always tried a “place” for its spectator. In the cinema furthermore, the exhibit’s own structure proposes the spectator as an indispensable element of the cinematographic act, developing a hegemonic model, in which it occupies a central and essential position. As Müsterberg stated, the cinema works i...

kiarostami’s unfinished cinema emphasizes the importance of audiences’ involvement in a movie by using postmodern images. some essential points of critically reading his, so-called half-created cinema, could be summarized as self-reflexive style, diagrammatical perspectives, in-between narratives,and individual minimalism. the main postmodern achievement of this cinema is focusing on the proces...

OBJECTIVE The true prevalence of smoking among characters portrayed in the movies is unknown. This study examines this prevalence objectively. DESIGN The top 10 movies on the weekly box office charts were reviewed. Whether or not the top five characters in these movies smoked, was documented. It was determined prior to the start of the study that 300 male characters and 300 female characters ...

Looking over the history of cinema from the vantage point of the early twenty-first century, recent research has increasingly highlighted the similarities between the sense of possibility characterizing cinema’s early decades and our own digital era, in which the proliferation of interactive media and variable screen formats has loosened the once dominant paradigm of the passive spectator immob...