The United States experienced a 25% unemployment rate in 1929 as result of the Great Depression. More than 5,000 banks announced closure, and more 80,000 businesses filed for bankruptcy direct Everyone was drowning woes being unemployed. However, Hollywood movies provided pastime people who were suffering every day during Although 1930s worst time U.S. economy, it golden age Hollywood. to late ...

prior to the 1980s, numerous charges of discrimination were noteworthy among women in hollywood. in those years, women were in uncertain situations, so they seemed aimless and vulnerable. in the period that this article focuses on, the female characters are or have become intelligent and therefore open-minded and potentially independent. although, they are still vulnerable and unsure of themsel...

Indian movie industry, notably Bollywood, has come a long way in the last two centuries. All in all, it has been a long story of nearly nine decades, with the early shaky screen images having been turned into a multi-pronged and vast economic empire. Today it is the biggest movie industry in the world in terms of number of films. The industry has produced approximately 27,000 feature films and ...

The prospect of a superbug that could wipe out much of the human race sounds like the stuff of science-fiction novels, Hollywood movies or doomsday prophets. However, such a global pandemic might not be as unlikely as it seems—some would even go so far as to say that it is a certainty, with the only uncertainties being what pathogen will cause it, when it will happen and how well the world will...

The movie industry is a multi-billion dollar industry, generating approximately $10 billion of revenue annually. In recent years, movies have generally become divided into two categories: blockbusters and independent movies. Studios have focused on relying on only a handful of extremely expensive movies every year to make sure they remain profitable. It is estimated that 80% of the industry’s p...

Prior to the 1980s, numerous charges of discrimination were noteworthy among women in Hollywood. In those years, women were in uncertain situations, so they seemed aimless and vulnerable. In the period that this article focuses on, the female characters are or have become intelligent and therefore open-minded and potentially independent. Although, they are still vulnerable and unsure of themsel...

In an article for Foreign Affairs at the outbreak of the World War II, film producer Walter Wanger referred to Hollywood movies as '120,000 American ambassadors'. The preeminence of Hollywood in presenting US ideology to the world has been asserted ever since. Yet the relationship between Hollywood and America's actual ambassadors, employed by the global network of American embassies, has rarel...

We present an international benchmark on the detection of violent scenes in movies, implemented as a part of the multimedia benchmarking initiative MediaEval 2011. The task consists in detecting portions of movies where physical violence is present from the automatic analysis of the video, sound and subtitle tracks. A dataset of 15 Hollywood movies was carefully annotated and divided into a dev...

This paper describes the ViVoLab/CVLab system to provide segments of violent scenes from Hollywood movies and “wild-user” videos from the internet. We propose a system based on a fusion of acoustic features, audio concepts and video features. Our joint audio-visual approach achieves MAP2014 values of 17.81% and 43.03%, for the main task and the generalization task, respectively.