This paper analyses the contribution that cultural activities make to social integration and satisfaction with life for older adults, using a nationally representative Dutch sample. Older people participate less frequently in social gatherings and have fewer close contacts than the adult population in general. They also experience increased feelings of loneliness. In contrast, older Dutch adult...

Beginning with classic Hollywood melodramas of the 1940s, cinema has maintained a prolific output of films with their own take on mental illnesses-none more so than the rare syndrome of dissociative identity disorder (DID). DID films are a popular and enduring genre, whose influence can be seen throughout mainstream cinema. Exploration of DID in cinema is a useful exercise in that it touches on...

Channel 4’s tradition of supporting, promoting and contributing to British cinema culture entered a new phase in 1998. Its film-making operations were consolidated into a single, semi-vertically integrated studio called FilmFour. On 1 November it launched a brand-new pay-TV channel of the same name. This channel programmed a variety of cinema, premiering world cinema films, FilmFour’s own produ...

The article engages Hungarian film production between 1945 and 2005 from a twofold perspective. It surveys women’s inclusion in the film-making profession and assesses the representation of women in Hungarian cinema. The study seeks answers to the questions whether state-socialist emancipation rhetoric and policies targeting women’s employment and social inclusion have also affected 1) the doma...

Resumo: A discussão entre verdade e realidade tem trazido muita crítica em relação aos modelos desenvolvidos na sociedade. Além disso, a segregação dos aspectos culturais por meio da filosofia racionalista e dialéctica tem mudado inteiramente a compreensão da formação de conceitos. Devido a um mercado competitivo, chama-se a atenção para o facto de a literatura infantil e os textos do cinema nã...

this paper aims to explore the relationship between iranian cinema and iranian society and tries to evaluate the potentials of iranian cinema in depicting the multiplicity of social fact. a functional distribution of films was used in order to describe this multiplicity. the 12 years were divided into three periods: the pre-kahtami era, and the first and second khatami administrations. the film...

In the entertainment industry’s quest for the “suspension of disbelief,” two primary sensory stimuli have been engaged: sight and sound. Since the advent of digital audio, a number of new multitrack digital sound formats have appeared in the motion picture industry, all in an attempt to achieve the ultimate audio experience. However, visual presentation has not advanced at the same pace as the ...

UNLABELLED Motion sickness symptoms and increased postural instability induced by motion pictures have been reported in a laboratory, but not in a real cinema. We, therefore, carried out an observational study recording sickness severity and postural instability in 19 subjects before, immediately and 45 min after watching a 1 h 3D aviation documentary in a cinema. Sickness was significantly lar...