Hero has constantly been an important theme of American commercial movies, which have been swarming into every corner of the world. Those movies focusing on heroism have already become the dominance of modern movie market. Individual heroism as the logo of commercial movies has become the quintessence and soul of Hollywood movies. Just as the freedom and democracy characterize the United States...

ALTHOUGH FILMS occupy a central place in American popular culture, that place is also, paradoxically, difficult to understand and characterize. Watching movies has been a major leisure and cultural activity for Ameri­ cans for more than a hundred years. But for nearly the entire duration of their history, there has been an active debate about the movies and their merits. They have been criticiz...

We propose a novel human-centric approach to detect and localize human actions in challenging video data, such as Hollywood movies. Our goal is to localize actions in time through the video and spatially in each frame. We achieve this by first obtaining generic spatiotemporal human tracks and then detecting specific actions within these using a sliding window classifier. We make the following c...

this paper is an attempt to indicate how the educated audience in the us re-reads and interprets the anti –islam movies produced by hollywood. we will use the reception approach of gadamer along with edward saeed's orientalism approach to offer a theoretical synthesis that includes concepts such as 1- lived experience, 2- intercultural communication and 3- digital literacy among american a...

How similar are the eye movement patterns of different subjects when free viewing dynamic natural scenes? We collected a large database of eye movements from 54 subjects on 18 high-resolution videos of outdoor scenes and measured their variability using the Normalized Scanpath Saliency, which we extended to the temporal domain. Even though up to about 80% of subjects looked at the same image re...