urban design, being concerned with the quality of built environment, requires close interaction with other disciplines such as urban planning, environmental design and architecture as well as sociology, psychology, and economics. this is necessary in order to appropriately recognize and analyze different dimensions of existing problems and provide solutions to them and to improve the quality of...

Cinema is an act of representation and it is based on the construction of reality inspired by experience. In Colombia, cinema has not been the product of a structured industry, but rather the effort of some filmmakers who have found different ways of telling stories about topics that are part of the national experience. The armed conflict in Colombia, understood as the confrontation between gov...

presently, the culture of economics in somecountries is given top priority against other sectors of civilian economics. this importantis not only due to the economical values of culture but also due to the outmost importanteffects which are able to boost the civilian economics both direct and indirect. in iranalso, the culture economics has its own specific importance and it includes industries...

In her article "Shen (1904-1940) film 十字街頭 (1937) (Crossroads Hollywood and Soviet cinema in 1930s explores the transcultural and transmedial possibilities and potentials in the in the 1930s and the unruly energy and unique aesthetic characteristics embedded in the process of creative mimesis and transplantation. While in the paradoxical attitude toward US-American and Soviet films, Chinese fil...

Please share your stories about how Open Access to this chapter benefits you. INTRODUCTION transregional strategy since the 1980s'. 5 Pertinent to This essay examines Zhang Yimous recent film, current developments in the Chinese film industry, Riding Alonefor Thousands of Miles (hereafter Riding the transnational perspective can serve as a fresh and Alone). Compared to Zhang's previous father-s...

This study examines ‘Indian cinema and Muslim image’ from 2002 to 2008. From the very beginning and particularly since 9/11 incident, the Indian film industry very often portrays the Muslim with stereotype image (which is negative). After the 9/11 incident, Muslims are being looked as suspicious people and portrayed as terrorists. Indian film industry adds fuel to the fire by making a lot of mo...