tech-noir cinema emerged as the combination of noir film and science-fiction genre in 1980s. noir film, which was one of the main currents of american cinema in 1940s, was influenced by detective fiction of american literature and expressionist cinema of germany in plot and form respectively. in 1970s and 1980s, because of artistic and social currents, there was a ground to return to noir; so n...

cinema industry is one of the main elements of cultural development. development of cinema industry requires the identifying the various social, economic and cultural dimensions. this paper studies the economic characteristics of cinema in iran. in this regard, it is necessary to identify the determinants of demand for movies and their demand elasticities. the computed elasticities have useful ...

A number of papers have empirically investigated the rational addiction model proposed by Becker and Murphy (1988) by using data on different harmful drugs, like cigarettes, alcohol, caffeine, opium, cocaine; but also activities independent of a biological or pharmaceutical dependency have been analysed, such as gambling, calorie consumption, news, arts, and cinema. The purpose of this paper is...

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...

This paper presents a chatterbot that answers or asks questions in Portuguese about a basic education text. From an input text composed of simple sentences, the questions and answers are generated in the chatterbot knowledge base. For this purpose, a morphosyntactic analysis is made and the semantic roles of each word are obtained. Seven semantic roles are treated, from which is defined what pr...

In Turkish cinema culture, something akin to a ‘golden era’ dates the years 1974–1980. During this time, some of most prominent figures in mainstream cinema, directors included, shot various sorts sex films: almost half 1091 features during these were designated as films. This article asks: how did era end? What happened its performers? kinds gendered realities appeared on-screen and off-screen...