The grumpy gamers amongst us are still smarting over the important, challenging and frustrating questions made famous by Roger Ebert and Steven Spielberg; whether games could be classed as artworks, as capable of raising nobler emotions, or whether as works of art they could even be uttered in the same breath as cinema or literature. And if games cannot be art, how could machinima stake claims ...

This article concerns the struggle between artistic expression and technological innovation. The perspective that is articulated is drawn from the work and of the Interactive Cinema group at the MIT Media Laboratory. Situated at the boundary of evolving technologies and media storytelling, research of the group iterates between shaping and presenting cinematic expressions using emerging technol...

On the basis of ethnographic and historical accounts, many movement scholars hold that differences in political expectations interaction styles inhibit cross-racial collaboration social movements. Inspired by this research, authors ask three questions about minority participation movements address them using a survey more than 6,000 participants anti–Iraq War movement. First, relational inequal...

The notion of peace, regardless of theorizations accepted in th field and since the                  Enlightenment Period, and the era known as Modernism, has, constantly, been one of the challenges of mankind, and also scientists in the field of political sciences and international relations.  Contrary to the presentation of the idea of peace and respect to the human rights in some of the fore...

Recensão da segunda edição de História do Cinema: Dos Primórdios ao Cinema Contemporâneo (2023), obra coordenada por Nelson Araújo.

This article attempts a reinterpretation of Aeschylus’ Persians as primarily warning about the instability democracy following major military victory against an overpowering totalitarian enemy. It discusses historical and our contemporary ideas democratic principles government versus constant tendency towards strongman regime. I argue that play’s underlying philosophy is based on Heraclitan ide...

Ecology has been a major theme of world cinema from the time immemorial so much that former become inextricably interwoven to latter. The same is true with Malayalam which contributes share vast reservoir great produced in India. paper entitled Haritha Cinema: Exploring Themes Nature and Cinema seeks explore themes nature environment Cinema. It specifically studies three ecological movies; Oru ...