3D television (TV) and cinema have experienced a recent surge in popularity aided in part by the success of films such as "Toy Story 3" and "Avatar". In parallel with this trend there have been increasing concerns about the safety of 3D TV and cinema for patients with photosensitive epilepsy. General practitioners, paediatricians and neurologists are being consulted about their opinions on the ...

Plagiarism is an illicit act of using other‟s work wholly or partially as one‟s own in any field such as art, poetry literature, cinema, research and other creative forms of study. It has become a serious crime in academia and research fields and access to wide range of resources on the internet has made the situation even worse. Therefore, there is a need for automatic detection of plagiarism ...

In this thesis the author argues that although questions of the spectator’s corporeal engagement with film are much neglected by film theory, the body is nevertheless a central term within contemporary cinema, in its mode of address, as a locus of anxiety in media effects debate, and as site of disciplinary practices. And while the thesis begins by demonstrating both the socially and historical...

This article looks into the transportation of the Chinese epic wuxia 武俠martial arts genre to Korean cinema and asks how the genre changed when it became the muhy̆op武俠 of Korean cinema. In this paper, I intend to look behind the Korean version of the wuxia genre and tackle some of the questions it raises. How should we look at these movies with often intensely nationalist content, which at the sa...

In her article "Shen (1904-1940) film 十字街頭 (1937) (Crossroads Hollywood and Soviet cinema in 1930s explores the transcultural and transmedial possibilities and potentials in the in the 1930s and the unruly energy and unique aesthetic characteristics embedded in the process of creative mimesis and transplantation. While in the paradoxical attitude toward US-American and Soviet films, Chinese fil...

First coined in the UK early 1990s as a new label for an ostensibly new, post-1979 kind and cycle of period cinema, ‘heritage film’ is now firmly established widely used term category academic film studies. Although heritage film’s defining features, ideological character ontological coherence would remain debated, its status ‘new’ hinges, self-evidently, on presumption that films culturally En...

The 1990s saw the introduction of three European directives that aimed to harmonise medical device legislation within Union (EU) and these were given effect in United Kingdom (UK) by Medical Devices Regulations 2002 (Statutory Instrument 2002/618 [UK MDR 2002]). Dental professionals EU who manufactured custom-made devices required do so accordance with relevant requirements one directives, Coun...

Pictures and cinema seen at a slant present the optics of virtual objects that are distorted and inconsistent with their real counterparts. In particular, it should not be possible for moving objects on slanted film and television screens to be seen as rigid, at least according to rules of linear perspective. Previous approaches to this problem have suggested that some process (perhaps cognitiv...

There tends to be a moment in the development of cultural practices when discourses of the recent past become history; they are no longer just outdated but, like bell-bottom jeans, mini-skirts and platform shoes, acquire historicity. This is what seems to have happened with film theory of the 1970s and early 1980s, particularly as it revolved around the notion of 'the spectator'. I am thinking ...