Psychoanalysis and the cinema were born at the end of the nineteenth century. They share a common historical, social, and cultural background shaped by the forces of modernity. Theorists commonly explore how psychoanalysis, with its emphasis on the importance of desire in the life of the individual, has influenced the cinema. But the reverse is also true-the cinema may well have influenced psyc...

Commencing with the history of cinema and of communicative technology, this essay focuses on the ways the cinematic sensibility and urban existence have influenced the contemporary experience of surveillance and complexity. And vice versa.

in the heart of all life's events, there has always been an interest and need toward cultural and artistic issues. in daily life, people perceive the absence of these requirements which they try to meet during their leisure time. these needs actually refer to people's tastes and preferences according to which they organize their pastime. every social setting provokes its own inclinati...

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...

among the various aspects of cultural consumption, consumption of cinema is one of the most pristine areas of research in the sociology of art. the present study aims to review the status of cinematic taste of citizens. research have been done using survey method, questionnaires and multi-stage cluster sampling method among 410 citizens of mashhad. findings show that average of watching movies ...

Velimir Bata Živojinović boasts a body of work which traverses 350 motion pictures from Classical Yugoslav Cinema over The New Film to Contemporary Serbian Cinema, historical epic film noir, family comedy radical avant-garde. A legendary actor and one the most significant personalities cinema, he is best remembered as archetypal hero Partisan film. This research examines ways in Živojinović’s p...