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Production, distribution, and consumption of cinematic violence raises several questions of academic import. Despite a plethora of research studies exploring the nature of screen violence and its effects on viewers, a serious debate on the influence of state machinery on the production of sanitized violence in movies is still wanting. Likewise, Bollywood’s role in advancing the Indian government’s agenda in war and peace times has been paid petite attention in academic discourses dealing with media-state interconnection. This article explores the relevance of Herman and Chomsky’s propaganda model as a framework for analysis and analyzes Bollywood’s movies based on stories of violence in war and peace times. The article discusses the connections with the Indian state apparatus that influences production processes in the Indian film industry by providing financial assistance and applying multifarious political, social, economic, and ideological pressures (filters). The findings suggest that the Bollywood movies support diplomatic initiatives of the Indian government through cinematic narratives of sanitized violence.
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Introduction of cinema to Turkey has gone through a rapider progress than that of printing and cinema has become very popular in Turkey. Cinema has contributed positively to this rapid progress thanks to its nature. It stimulates more than one sense conveying several things at one glance and alternating in between dreams, imagination and life’s realities and therefore it is desired greatly…
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The article examines the ambivalent attitude and reactions to technology as exemplified by the female robot in Fritz Lang’s Metropolis and analyzes the functions and mechanisms of mythological reenactment of the witch figure in the culture of modernity. It discusses the movie’s symbolic representations of technological progress and its perils, as well as its ethics and gender politics.
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In this article I intend to approach various aspects concerning the “translation” of literatures into film and the variety of transformation requested by this kind of modern adaptation. The first part of the article intends to give an answer to questions such as how can texts change into filmic image, what makes fiction become film, how could one make the translation from words to image? In a second section of my paper I will focus on the controversies raised by the relations established between literatures and cinematography, with a focus on the issue of fidelity of the cinematic expression to the literary source, the restriction the concept of fidelity supposes and the power of innovation of the cinematography.
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The article presents a description of the results of an experiment, in which a questionnaire was used and an analysis of a child’s statement content was carried out. The main research goal of the undertaking is an attempt at answering the question whether and to what degree, in the era of globalization, children’s creative activity in the sphere of language (stimulated by methods generated by literary and film – media – education) influences the degree / level of understanding the verbal and iconic code, and what the effects of acquiring those skills in the form of transferring them onto the ground of communicative behaviors are. The research conducted provided not only the information to what degree literary and linguistic education supported by fable animation influences children’s spheres – communicative and linguistic ones – but also confirmed the theses that a proper combination of education methods in teaching and rearing aids a child’s multifaceted development, influencing different cognitive and psychical, integration and social as well as intellectual and linguistic spheres.
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“The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser” by Werner Herzog could be treated as an allegory of the human condition, akin to the vision of writers belonging to the broadly defined existentialist tradition – as far as the world vision and the conception of man, presented in the movie, are concerned. As the aforementioned allegory we can treat life history of the movie’s protagonist, Kaspar Hauser, the child of nature, thrown by an unknown dark force into completely incomprehensible for him human civilization, into the world of an absent – or negated – Absolute. It’s best formulaic description – “the empty Transcendence” – we can find in the poetry of Bolesław Leśmian. To some extent Herzog’s work could be treated as an evocation of so understood transcendence and as an expression of the existentialists’ diagnosis of our human fate: the man comes out of darkness and in the darkness he finds his ultimate destination.
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Purpose: To research features of TV programming regarding the presence of Bulgarian films on the TV screens Results: Proves that commercial TV programming is deliberately aimed at the most uneducated part of the audience and meets its needs. This was achieved via one year monitoring of the leading Bulgarian TV stations. Contributions: This research exposes a huge problem in the promotion of socio-cultural patterns of behavior and mass culture. Everybody can do as they wish, as long as they win, as the neo-liberals say. The problem is that the cost of forced mediocrity will then be paid by everyone.
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12th Central and Eastern European Communication and Media Conference (CEECOM 2019), from 19th to 21st June, 2019. The focus of CEECOM 2019 was the strategic and practical aspects of managing communications, thus establishing a wide interdisciplinary foundation for works in the field of communication, media studies and political sciences. The aim of organizations was to bring together a number of scholars with diverse backgrounds to exchange ideas regarding the present and the future of communication endeavors.
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The repetition is a philosophical category, since Kierkegaard the term is present in the image theory. Gilles Deleuze in his work Différence et répétition (Difference and repetition) constructed the fundamentals of repetition theory. The difference at Deleuze (this is not the same term as the différance at Derrida) is defined in the context of the repetition. Gottfried Boehm in the seventies introduced the term of iconic difference (ikonische Differenz), parallel was Deleuze and Guattari who in their common work Mille plateaux talk about the term machine abstraite (abstrakte Maschine), in the context of definition of the face, as an image. In my study I analyse the relationship between the repeated images and the iconic difference and I talk about the nonverbal structure of the iconic difference.
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Transitions Online-Around the Bloc-3 MarchToday’s regional roundup: more constitutional changes in Russia; Borisov stands by Erdogan; the Transdniester war, 28 years on; Armenians in Ethiopia; and Polish filmmaking.
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The ever growing and updating Shakespearian context is the topic of this article examining the almost simultaneous appearance (in Bulgaria, 2019) of a book, a film, and a theatre production related to the Bard: the book is “Nothing Like the Sun” by Anthony Burgess (translated by M. Melnishka), the film is Kenneth Branagh’s “All Is True”, and the theatre production is “Romeo and Juliet” at the Mladezhki Theatre (Youth Theatre) in Sofia.
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The main focus in this study is the unique individual reception of the Expressionism in some of Eugene O'Neill’s plays from the 1920s: "The Emperor Jones" (1920) and "The Hairy Ape" (1922). A strong source of influence is August Strindberg and his experiments at the Chamber Theater in Stockholm. This can be traced by pointing out common thematic and stylistic features in Strindberg's trilogy "The Road to Damascus" and O'Neill's "The Emperor Jones". Another major source of influence is the German Expressionist movement from the first quarter of the 20th century, especially some of the leading playwrights like Georg Kaiser and Ernst Toller. Yet another source of influence are the German Expressionistic films of R. Wiene, F. Lang and Murnau, which followed most of the principles of the avant-garde trend.
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The task of this text by the is to outline the main political and ethical ideas that Georgi Markov (Bulgarian writer and dissident, murdered in exile by the Secret Services) maintains in his constant and often radical criticism towards Bulgaria regime during the years. Italian professor Giuseppe Dell’ Agata’s main point is related to Markov’s unshattered conviction that the Bulgarian regime created by the Communist Party had nothing to do with the communism or the socialism but was simply an example of state capitalism.
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The art historian prof. Irina Genova traces the history of AICA (Association internationale des critiques d’art) and focuses on its congress in Poland (Warsaw and Krakow) in 1960. The carefully chosen topic of the congress, “International Character of Contemporary Art”, meant to provide a meeting point for Western European and Eastern European artists and to open the post-Stalinist Eastern art scene to the contemporary tendencies of the abstract painting. The situation was different in the different countries. The research draws a parallel between the quite open Polish scene and the more conservative and closed Bulgarian one and the reception the congress had in those two contexts.
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This article explores the general content of printed advertisement, its elements and their interaction. By making a brief presentation of the different elements involved in print advertising, the research attempts at presenting and summarizing the role in advertising of illustrations and photographic images in particular. The study will also try to give a clear answer to the question concerning the quantity of photographic images compared to other types of illustrations, drawings, collages or computer generated images in Bulgarian print advertising during the period 2000-2017.
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The purpose of the article is to present the evolution of television networкs and services and streaming them through analogue TV to full digitalization to the introduction of IP technology and advanced smart smart equipment. The networкs of cable TV operators are being transformed into triple play networкs, кnown as triple play. In addition to standard television, they also carry telephony and the Internet. As a result, it can be considered that the equipment converges and becomes more intelligent and highly functional. To date, networкs are switching to the IP core and offering high-speed and broadband IP services. Television is undergoing its metamorphosis and is being transformed to IPTV - (Internet Protocol TeleVision). The authors' contributions are related to the analysis of the main components and processes for the acquisition and processing of television content in IPTV.
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