This study is concerned with the use of specific tools from Mikhail Bakhtin’s comprehensive literary work in order to investigate the notion of time/space in Bahram Beyzaie’s 1979 movie, The Crow. Employing the Bakhtinian notion of chronotope in the analysis of the movie as a cinematic text proves helpful in developing the notion of anachronotopicity, which is then utilized to investigate the w...

For certain database tasks that require great exibility, some people are turning to a new kind of data representation in which the database is not constrained by a schema. Instead, each component of the database carries its own description, which is independent of other components. Systems like ACeDB, which has become very popular with biologists, and the recent Tsimmis proposal for data integr...

This paper describes the movie timeline design for the ReAL CODE (Recommendation Agent for Local

background: surgery is a stressful condition for both patient and family members. this anxiety may interfere with the adequate family functioning and in providing positive support for the patient. thus, specialized assessment and interventions to reduce anxiety level of family members are essential. the aim of this study was to assess the effect of watching movie on anxiety level of family memb...

ôbjective: ône of non-confrontative methods for treatment of difficult issues such as grief is movie therapy which is an advanced form of bibliotherapy. the present study aimed at evaluating the effectiveness of group movie therapy (gmt) on reduction of intensity of grief experience in bereaved adolescent girls. methods: this was a quasi-experimental design with pretest-posttest and a follow up...

Text information, which plays important role in news video concept detection, has been ignored in state-of-the-art movie analysis technology. It is so because movie subtitles are speech of roles which do not directly describe content of movie and contributes little to movie analysis. In this paper, we import collaborative-editing synopsis from professional movie sites for movie analysis, which ...

This study examined the effects of humorous movie clips on better learning of English language vocabulary. Humor is an important human behavior that plays a vital role in communication and social interactions. This subject has been rarely investigated in Iranian English classes. The researchers used quantitative method. Because all of variables were not controllable, therefore quasi-experimenta...

Movie ratings play an important role both in determining the likelihood of a potential viewer to watch the movie and in reflecting the current viewer satisfaction with the movie. They are available in several sources like the television guide, best-selling reference books, newspaper columns, and television programs. Furthermore, movie ratings are crucial for recommendation engines that track th...