e vast majority of literature devoted to independent cinema focuses on American fi lm production. When I was looking for books on independent cinema in my university library, out of about twenty fi ve, I identifi ed twenty or so devoted exclusively to American cinema. For the majority of scholars and students, using the term “independent” means independent from Hollywood, not only in terms of f...

Cinema therapy is a creative therapy technique in which a trained psychotherapist uses the films as a therapy tool. According to the film therapist Gary Solomon, cinema therapy is usage of films which have positive effects on people except psychotic disorders. In cinema therapy movies are used by psychiatrists, psychologists, clinical social workers, psychiatric nurses, art therapists, academic...

This paper investigates whether Google Trends search information can improve forecasts of cinema admissions, over and above those based on seasonal patterns in the data. Using monthly data for the UK for the period 2004(1) to 2008(12) we examine various forecasting models that incorporate Google Trends search information. We find clear evidence that Google Trends data on searches relevant to ci...

3D cinema and 3DTV are at two different levels in the screen size spectrum. When the same stereoscopic-3D content is viewed on a cinema screen and 3DTV screen, it will produce a different 3D impression. As a result, it is difficult to fulfill the requirements of 3DTV with content captured for 3D cinema. Thus, it is important to properly address the issue of 3DTV content creation to avoid possib...

In his article "The Suppression of Satirizing Belgian Community Difficulties in Flemish Cinema and the Film Adaptation of Will-O'-the Wisp" Gertjan Willems analyzes two film projects of Frans Buyens. In 1970, Buyens received a positive funding recommendation for Top-Hit Girl, a satire about community difficulties in Belgium. However, Minister of Culture Frans van Mechelen refused to support the...

family is a widespread social institution that understanding of the early universe and its phenomena through it. it seemed that family and its intrafamily relationships have changed these years and shaped as a new form. iranian cinema by creating stereotypes of relationships, personality and positions have an important role in iranian people mental construction of family and its relations. in t...

abstractin this article, iranian society in the 80s is analyzed in terms of its prevailing insights using the theory of reflection in the sociology of cinema. this theory, which considers art as a mirror for society, permits researcher to study the predominant perceptions of the period under investigation. this is done through assessment of the image of hero shown in its cinema. moreover, the g...

Gilles Deleuze, in his two books on film, Cinema 1: The Movement-Image and Cinema 2: The Time-Image, proposes a revolutionary approach to film theory. Drawing on Deleuze's own philosophy of repetition and difference and the work of Henri Bergson, the Cinema books extend these theories to foreground those aspects that are most essential to the medium: that film unfolds in time, and is comprised ...