Cutting, Delong and Nothelfer (2010) use statistical methods to investigate the evolution of shot-length patterns in popular film. They argue, using what they call a ‘modified autoregressive index’ (mAR), that patterns are becoming increasingly clustered and also evolving towards 1/f structure, a pattern described in later publication as ‘like those that our minds may naturally generate’. This ...

The widely shocking attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11 was interpreted differently by various institutions worldwide, ranging from America's legitimate motive to begin a 'war on terror' to defend her 'very freedom', to a pretext for Bush administration to pursue G. H. W. Bush's temptation for 'a new world order'. Various institutions, therefore, made use of their...

This paper describes our experiences our experience in building and using a Web-based video library designed for educational use. The CAETI Internet Multimedia Library’s initial audience is K-12 schools; most of the content of our library comes from news and politics-related historical footage. The video library is a good tool not just for content but also for acquiring visual literacy. Politic...

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Most of the commercialized games have used controller by manipulated hands or foots. Recently, some studies tried to facial expressions or emotion as game input, but it didn’t directly manipulate a game. It adjusted the difficulty of game. In this study, we suggest a new type of game input interface using face components as input, directly, and present one offline game and two online games by u...

OBJECTIVE The true prevalence of smoking among characters portrayed in the movies is unknown. This study examines this prevalence objectively. DESIGN The top 10 movies on the weekly box office charts were reviewed. Whether or not the top five characters in these movies smoked, was documented. It was determined prior to the start of the study that 300 male characters and 300 female characters ...

CHICAGO – Tony Curtis, who rolled into town to introduce his classic “Some Like it Hot” – December 5th and 6th, 2009, at the Hollywood Palms in Naperville, IL – has a sharp and voracious intelligence, plus the adventurous life story to share. In his new book, “The Making of Some Like it Hot,” Curtis relates the incredible Hollywood tale about how two big stars, he and Jack Lemmon, dressed up as...

conclusions the sex differences in the neuroanatomy of the human mirror neuron system affect functional recovery of patients with hemiparesis. the improvement in studied women was found to be significantly greater than studied men. the results indicate a higher chance of recovery among hemiparetic women, especially those watching functional movies. results comparison of all variables related to...

gavaznha(deer) and kandu(hive) as two of the pre-revolutionary movies in the history of iranian cinema carry signs of the iranian new wave. since these movies were somehow the social reality of their time, they succeeded in having a different influence on the minds of social actors. on the other hand, developing the screenplay’s characters in these two movies was quite distinct from the routine...