Gladiatorial combat was in reality a lot less lethal than it is depicted in the cinema. This short paper highlights how cooperative strategies could have prevailed in the arenas, which is generally what happened during the Games. Cooperation in the arena corresponded to a situation of the professionalization of gladiators, who been trained in gladiatorial schools. This case provides an analogy ...

This paper describes a creative industries research project that has applied quantitative approaches commonly used in scientific research to the study of international cinema performance. Using film screening data collected over a two year period, this paper discusses analysis of a global dataset using Appadurai’s “-scapes” framework. We have identified several of these “-scapes” that help us i...

This paper explores the contentious notion of experiential narrative and proposes the first step in a narrative framework for game environment. It argues for a shift in emphasis from story-telling, the dominant mode of narrative in literature and cinema, to story generation. To this effect the paper forwards a perspective on experiential narrative that is grounded in the specific qualities of t...

1 Would like to thank all the people that helped this project to happen: To my dear Jiji for all her support, love and the Korean food. To my parents and my brother. 1.6.the noise perspective: Walter Murch and the sonic director 1.7.the video culture 1.8.the phenomenology of montage: Gustav Deutsch .>[First intermission]mise-en-scene and the visual cell 17 a.1.definitions a.2.speed and motion i...

Films portray mental illness and mental health problems in a variety of ways. Some can be used to teach medical students and psychiatric trainees about certain aspects of psychiatry: watching a film is useful when learning about mental state examination, how to reach a diagnosis, doctor-patient interactions and personality disorder. I have chosen a list of films to watch for each of these topic...

The purpose of the article is to study art techniques and means expression neo-noir post-noir in cinematography late XX — early XXI centuries. subject analysis are noir phenomena latest postmodern processes cinema, based on aesthetic, genre style canon noir. Noir language could not remain within narrow limits aesthetics “black” cinema. That why they became a space transformations: stylistic, ge...

Introduction Detailed information on anatomy and hemodynamics in cerebrovascular disorders such as AVM and Moyamoya disease is mandatory for defined diagnosis and treatment planning [1]. DSA may still be a gold standard for diagnostic modality but is otherwise invasive. Contrast-enhanced dynamic MR angiography (CE-dMRA) is a useful technique but poses a risk associated with contrast agent [2]. ...

This article is concerned with the relationship of language and city in Amir Naderi’s trilogy of films on New York, comprising of Manhattan by Numbers (1993), A, B, C… Manhattan (1997), and Marathon (2002). By dint of a narrative relied on spatiality, he is in fact able to causally link the solitude and the spectral existence of his protagonists to the lack of a common language for reco...