Bollywood, aka the Mumbai film industry, is one of biggest movie industries in world with a current market share worth 2.1 billion dollars and target audience base 1.2 people. While entertainment impact terms lives that Bollywood can potentially touch mammoth, no NLP study on social biases content exists. We thus seek to understand developing country through lens popular movies. Our argument si...

The present analysis of more than 180,000 sentences from movie plots across the period 1940 to 2019 emphasizes how gender stereotypes are expressed through cultural products society. By applying a network word co-occurrence networks and using novel method identifying story tropes, we demonstrate that exist in Hollywood movies. An specific paths words reflecting various domains show dynamic chan...

Illicit sharing of infringing content, such as movies and TV, remains a persistent and ongoing threat to the viability of Australia’s creative industries. The revenue model that underpins torrent indexing and file locker sites which enable this sharing – like much of the World Wide Web – is based on advertising. Recent research has suggested that there has been a shift from mainstream to High-R...

Edited moving images entertain, inform, and coerce us throughout our daily lives, yet until recently, the way people perceive movies has received little psychological attention. We review the history of empirical investigations into movie perception and the recent explosion of new research on the subject using methods such as behavioral experiments, functional magnetic resonance imagery (fMRI) ...

Abstract Movies can implicitly promote social and ideological norms on a mass scale, making them powerful socialization agents, especially among children. However, Hollywood movies are no longer confined to the influence of American ideals, as media companies now have consider growing markets such China. With this in mind, paper explores portrayal gender, power, gendered roles across two versio...

In the first part of this paper, we have introduced a novel theoretical approach to mating dynamics, known as Tie-Up Theory (TU). In this second part, in the context of the bio-cultural approach to literature, that assigns to fictional narratives an important valence of social cognition, we apply the conceptual tools presented in the first part to the analysis of mating-related interaction dyna...

In his paper, "Underwater Women in Shakespeare Films," Charles Ross looks at the film tradition of representing the social oppression of women by scenes submersion, a trope that has its literary roots in the classics, the French Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the novel. Ross argues that unlike classic directors such as Kurosawa, Kozintsev, and Polanski, modern filmmakers not only like to enh...

Logical Story Unit (LSU) segmentation in general domains, such as movies and television series, requires interaction between human experts and automatic tools. We present an interaction model that allows users, who are non-experts in the field of video processing, to segment videos into logical story units by tuning models rather than manual correction of results of automatic methods. Suitable ...

File sharing provides a useful laboratory for investigating the economic importance of intellectual property protection. There are two main empirical challenges: overcoming the non-random timing of the arrival date of illicit copies and dealing with low statistical power due to limited sample size. This paper uses markets to address these issues in the context of movies. I show forwardlooking m...