this paper is an attempt to indicate how the educated audience in the us re-reads and interprets the anti –islam movies produced by hollywood. we will use the reception approach of gadamer along with edward saeed's orientalism approach to offer a theoretical synthesis that includes concepts such as 1- lived experience, 2- intercultural communication and 3- digital literacy among american a...

Animated movies for educational presentations of scientific concepts are increasingly interesting a small but dedicated number of scientists, engineers, educators, and animators. The' value of animated movies for presenting complicated concepts has long been recognized. Now a new method for producing animated movies has been devised, and has led to the present renewed interest. Previously, anim...

The Surgeon General has concluded that there is a causal relationship between depictions of smoking in the movies and the initiation of smoking among young persons (1). The more youths see smoking on screen, the more likely they are to start smoking; youths who are heavily exposed to onscreen smoking imagery are approximately two to three times as likely to begin smoking as are youths who recei...

People are gregarious by nature, which explains why group activities, from colleagues sharing a meal to friends attending a book club event together, are the social norm. Online group recommenders identify items of interest, such as restaurants, movies, and books, that satisfy the collective needs of a group (rather than the interests of individual group members). With a number of new movies be...

Background: A method for systematically identifying, selecting, and ranking high quality movies for public health training does not exist. We therefore aimed to pilot a method and use it to generate an initial selection of suitable movies in a range of public health categories. Methods: To identify possible movies, systematic searches were undertaken of two large movie databases. If meeting min...

19 Contrafreeloading, which means that animals work for food even though 20 identical food is freely available, has been reported in animals’ feeding behavior. This 21 phenomenon has been assumed to be explained by the information primacy model, in 22 which the information about a food resource as well as the food itself is valuable for 23 animals. This study confirmed a contrafreeloading-like ...

In the preceding paper we described the responses of cells in the cat's lateral suprasylvian visual area (LS) to large-field optic flow and texture movies. To assess response properties such as direction selectivity, cells were also tested with moving bar stimuli. We expected that there would be good agreement between response properties elicited with optic flow movies and those revealed with b...

Digital movies gradually reach the climax of innovation with popularity Avatar. The development digital media technology has been making breakthroughs in researches movie aesthetics, which promotes combination realistic simulation and full virtual aesthetics-- aesthetics movies. This paper is from audience perception perspective to shallowly discuss analysis collision between reality virtualiza...

The film industry can provide insights for researchers in cultural heritage. Modern movies require the management of an enormous number of digital assets, analogous to how digital assets are managed in cultural heritage. Furthermore, movies are cultural artefacts in their own right: the preservation of movies gives lessons in the preservation of other ephemera, including all of those digital as...