This paper analyses the changing use of shot scales and shot types in the films of Alfred Hitchcock from The Pleasure Garden (1925) to The Birds (1963) in the context of the introduction of sound technology to British cinema in 1929 and the director’s move from Britain to Hollywood in 1939. A sample of 42 films was divided into 3 subgroups (British silent films [ = 9]; British sound films [ = 1...

This article explores the intersection between geopolitics, international relations and film. The first section examines how popular geopolitics and related areas of International Relations have engaged with film and Hollywood. Thereafter, it considers the interrelationship between Hollywood, the Bush administration and the post-9/11 era in an attempt to better understand some of the contours o...

Hollywood has produced various blockbusters on the subject of disasters. Entering the 2000s, disaster films began to be produced in the East Asian region as well, and as most of them were successful, disaster films have settled as a popular genre in the region. East Asian disaster films utilize a plot structure similar to Hollywood films but, at the same time, represent East Asian people’s uniq...

This paper studies the image of Latinos in the United States of Americathrough the Hollywood films production by the well-known Mexican director,AlejandroGonz?lez I??rritu. Using content analysis of the Latinos characters in the threefilms directed by him and in collaboration with screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga, thepresent paper examines the masculinity frame to see whether the Latinos areportr...

Copyright © 2006 Heldref Publications Abstract: This article explores the often contradictory relationship between films and comic book art. Adaptations of superhero comics have reinforced a commercialistic blockbuster mentality among the Hollywood studios. Adaptations of graphic novels have explored alternate visions of visual style and representation. Complications of these polarized effects ...

Scene segmentation is a crucial task in the structural analysis of film. State-of-the-art scene segmentation algorithms target Hollywoodtype films. There is an abundance of films that differ significantly from Hollywood films and need specific scene segmentation techniques. We propose a scene segmentation algorithm targeted at artistic archive documentaries. We evaluate the performance of our t...