n the September-October 2010 issue of Health Progress, my colleague Ron Hamel, who alternates writing this column with me, discussed the unfinished business of health care reform.1 Among the items he mentioned was that a concern for the common good has been lacking in the debate. He ended his essay by suggesting that Catholic social teaching can be a resource for resolving the unfinished busine...

supposing the reciprocity of relations between society and media, it is logical to investigate the social changes of women’s identity through inspecting the changes in women’s identity representation in media (particularly cinema). this paper aims to analyze the mutual effects of predominant social affairs of after-islamic revolution of iran on the manner of women’s representation in iran’s cin...

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...

There tends to be a moment in the development of cultural practices when discourses of the recent past become history; they are no longer just outdated but, like bell-bottom jeans, mini-skirts and platform shoes, acquire historicity. This is what seems to have happened with film theory of the 1970s and early 1980s, particularly as it revolved around the notion of 'the spectator'. I am thinking ...

Like Hollywood cinema, gong’an drama seizes upon the dramatic and narrative potential of legal trials. Yet, while Hollywood trial films turn viewers into jurors, pushing them back and forth between the competing stories that emerge from the adversarial process, gong’an drama eschews any recognition of opposing narratives, instead centering on the punishment of decidedly guilty criminals. The mo...

A plug-in for the 3D modeling application CINEMA 4D is presented which allows to use the graph transformation language XL to transform the 3D scene graph of CINEMA 4D. XL extends Java by graph query and rewrite facilities via a data model interface, the default rewrite mechanism is that of relational growth grammars which are based on parallel single-pushout derivations. We illustrate the plug-...

Paradigmatic change is driving aesthetic change in cinema. This restructuring is not only transforming what is on the screen, but the means of production that put it there. The interplay of technology and culture, along with their dynamics has made this so. Marshall McLuhan’s Laws of Media provide an effective lens with which to examine this change. Some preliminary observations on the shape of...

We study a two-level inventory system that is subject to failures and repairs. The objective is to minimize the expected total cost so as to determine the production plan for a single quantity demand. The expected total cost consists of the inventory carrying costs for finished and unfinished items, the backlog cost for not meeting the demand due-date, and the planning costs associated with the...