cinema industry is one of the main elements of cultural development. development of cinema industry requires the identifying the various social, economic and cultural dimensions. this paper studies the economic characteristics of cinema in iran. in this regard, it is necessary to identify the determinants of demand for movies and their demand elasticities. the computed elasticities have useful ...

Acousmêtre, or the use of offscreen sounds and visual media to stimulate the imagination of the viewers was explored by Fritz Lang or Alfred Hitchcock in cinema. However, it's full potential is still waiting to be explored in interactive virtual environments. Based on the initial investigation, the inclusion of acousmêtre in a virtual environment effectively elicits suspense and increases the v...

You Need Violence and Sincerity: Godard and the Manufacturing of a Revolutionary Cinema

The patient is a factory programme engineer, on duty as a Lieutenant Commander R.N.R., who at the age of 41 was serving his annual training in H.M.S. Venturer, which called at Oporto, Portugal. He had apparently intended to stay aboard on 17th August, 1965, but two officers of H.M.S. Thames alongside had hired a self-drive car and offered him the front passenger seat, which he accepted. The car...

The study of many-body physics has provided a scientific playground of surprise and continuing revolution over the past half century. The serendipitous discovery of new states and properties of matter, phenomena such as superfluidity, the Meissner, the Kondo and the fractional quantum hall effects, have driven the development of new conceptual frameworks for our understanding about collective b...

Dr. Jansen's paper raises three main issues. The one with which he himself is most concerned is the question of which methods of abortion are ethically right, and whether methods which risk the birth of a damaged baby are wrong. But there are two others: first, how the (originally unintended) birth of a live but damaged child alters the moral situation, and secondly, whether the overcoming of...

this research entitled “new south korean cinema” deals with a kind of genre bending in new film industry of south korea; a wide-ranging analysis of one of the world's most important contemporary film industries, new korean cinema adopts a cross-cultural and multi-dimensional perspective and provides a comprehensive overview of the production, circulation and reception of modern south korea...

An earlier version of this book review appeared in Film Interernational, Nov. 13, 2013 (http://filmint.nu/ ?p=10038). It appears here by permission. Author Notes Brandon Konecny recently graduated from the Film Studies program at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. He is a two-time scholarship recipient of the Fluor Scholarship Foundation, winner of the UNCW Award for Excellence in Fil...