Stereoscopic cinema has seen a surge of activity in recent years, and for the first time all of the major Hollywood studios released 3-D movies in 2009. This is happening alongside the adoption of 3-D technology for sports broadcasting, and the arrival of 3-D TVs for the home. Two previous attempts to introduce 3-D cinema in the 1950s and the 1980s failed because the contemporary technology was...

The architecture of homes in Iran has changed significantly over the past four decades since 1979 Iranian revolution. We ask how these architectural changes shift neighborhood relationships and they transform Iranians’ hospitality rituals practices. conducted a qualitative content analysis eighteen movies filmed after They allowed us to make comparisons among various dwelling patterns relations...

tech-noir cinema emerged as the combination of noir film and science-fiction genre in 1980s. noir film, which was one of the main currents of american cinema in 1940s, was influenced by detective fiction of american literature and expressionist cinema of germany in plot and form respectively. in 1970s and 1980s, because of artistic and social currents, there was a ground to return to noir; so n...

Lan Dong explores in her paper, "Tracing Chinese Gay Cinema 1993-2002" the recent landscape of Chinese gay cinema through discussing the following three feature films: Chen Kaige's Farewell My Concubine (1993), Zhang Yuan's East Palace, West Palace (1996), and Stanley Kwan's Lan Yu (2001). The grouping derives from the concern that they all set their stories in Beijing. Using the capital city a...

The Popular Mobilisation Units’ (PMU) rise in Iraq resulted from a de facto, post-2003 hybridization of security governance, opposed to an emergency measure combat Islamic State after 2014. Rather than cohesive sectarian movement, the PMU moniker granted government veneer array pre-existing or new militias, representing decentralized Shi’a Arab mobilisation prior 2014, symptomatic Iraq’s divisi...

The JISC funded IRIOS (Integrated Research Input and Output System) project developed a demonstrator integrating research information input (projects) and output (publications) datasets allowing data to be linked and exported in CERIF format. C4D (CERIF for Datasets), extends this platform to manage research datasets as outputs from research projects. Although research datasets vary and are ext...

The overall aim of CERIF for Datasets (C4D) is to develop a framework for incorporating metadata into CERIF (the Common European Research Information Format) such that research organisations and researchers can better discover and make use of existing and future research datasets, wherever they may be held. CERIF provides a standardised way of managing and exchanging research information and ha...

By J. D. HaUoran (Leicester University Press, 7s. 6d.) Mr. Halloran's working paper prompted me to look up the record of that seminal conference on "Popular Culture and Personal Responsibility" which the National Union of Teachers organised five years ago, to see whether much progress has been made since. Stanley Reed, of the British Film Institute, said then that it was amazing how little we k...