Indian regional movie dataset is the €rst database of regional Indian movies, users and their ratings. It consists of movies belonging to 18 di‚erent Indian regional languages and metadata of users with varying demographics. Œrough this dataset, the diversity of Indian regional cinema and its huge viewership is captured. We analyze the dataset that contains roughly 10K ratings of 919 users and ...

Musical obsessions are rare in both clinical practice and literature. A case is presented of a musical obsession which had the additional unique characteristics of acute onset, marked severity, and occurrence as an isolated symptom.

In the past two decades computers have begun to be used extensively as media. The two most influential types of media usage is the internet and the WWW, corresponding to telephone, letters, newspapers and television, and the computer game genre, corresponding to aesthetic products such as novels and movies. The unique characteristic of the computer medium is its interactivity, i.e. the fact tha...

This article looks into the transportation of the Chinese epic wuxia 武俠martial arts genre to Korean cinema and asks how the genre changed when it became the muhy̆op武俠 of Korean cinema. In this paper, I intend to look behind the Korean version of the wuxia genre and tackle some of the questions it raises. How should we look at these movies with often intensely nationalist content, which at the sa...

The paper offers a reading of Jason’s use sparsity, seriousness, and reduction as concealment technique that is based on multifaceted ambiguity involving the blending genres, playfully intertextual attitude, surprising emotional depth character story. It discusses connection between humour visual, textual, structural in works, well ambivalence reader’s response, illustrates combination incongru...

In this research, we investigate the relationship between a movie’s gross and its budget, year of release, season genre, rating. The movie data used in research are severely skewed to right, resulting problems nonlinearity, non-normal distribution, non-constant variance error terms. To overcome these difficulties, employ Gaussian copula marginal regression (GCMR) model after adjusting budget va...

Making decision on which movie to watch is nowadays not an easy process for majority of people. Many people may decide to watch a movie based on the genre attribute of a movie, while for the others, the director can be the attribute that drives them to watch a movie. Hence, people may have di↵erent features, taken into account, when deciding which movie to watch. Recommender Systems can help pe...

Skipforward is a distributed annotation system allowing users to enter and browse statements about items and their features. Items can be things such as movies or books; item features are the genre of a movie or the storytelling pace of a book. Whenever multiple users annotate the same item with a statement about the same feature, these individual statements get aggregated by the system. For ag...

Cruickshank and Collins [2] ‘Advancing Leadership in Sport: Time to Take Off the Blinkers?’ has created something of a furore around the effectiveness and suitability of dark leadership traits and behaviours. This paper attempts to clarify some of the conceptual issues discussed within their paper, while also redressing a number of literary misrepresentations. Finally, the potential limitations...

This paper examines genre trends in the top 50 grossing films at the US box office each year from 1991 to 2010, focussing on the frequency and rank of different genres, the box office gross and release patterns of films in different genres, and the release profile of Hollywood studios. The results show a narrowing of the range of genres at the highest rankings, with fantasy/science fiction movi...