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- 1From:Music, Sound, and the Moving Image (Vol. 10, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedReaders of this journal have witnessed the proliferation of work in the field of film music studies over recent years. With this expansion has come a variety of ways of understanding the relationship between music and...
- 2From:Parameters (Vol. 47, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis article discusses the role of movie images in influencing the public's perceptions of servicemembers. The implications of these findings are relevant to policymakers responsible for balancing servicemembers' needs...
- 3From:Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind (Vol. 7, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedDo films that challenge us to turn away from the screen as a result of their depictions of violence raise issues about the ethics not of regarding the pain of others, but of watching films as a whole? Drawing on Stanley...
- 4From:China Media Research (Vol. 9, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedDoes everyone in Singapore love kung fu fighting? According to Carl Douglas, everyone in America did, when he sang "Kung Fu Fighting" in 1974 during the peak of America's fascination with kung fu movies. Many scholars...
- 5From:Journal of Religion and Popular Culture (Vol. 12) Peer-ReviewedGreg Linnell * Abstract A descriptive analysis of the ways in which the non-denominational Protestant monthly The Christian Herald attempted to mediate between Hollywood and American Protestants reveals the...
- 6From:Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind (Vol. 4, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis article extends current theorizing in media psychology on audience responses to cinema by examining individuals' perceptions of meaningfulness. Specifically, it presents the results of a study designed to expand...
- 7From:Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind (Vol. 6, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedWhen reading about research exploring event perception, we are often reminded of the child's game slap hand, otherwise known as red hand, or slapsies. In case this is unfamiliar to you, slap hand is a two player game in...
- 8From:Australian Screen Education (Issue 30) Peer-ReviewedON FORREST GUMP (ROBERT ZEMECKIS, 1994) I can't stop thinking about Forrest Gump. Why does this movie, which I found so emotionally satisfying, keep nagging at me? I even took my 7-year-old son to see it--twice. As a...
- 9From:Film History (Vol. 13, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIn the last decade, as film historians have widened their acceptance of what constitutes 'film history', there has been a welcome shift away from the 'Eastcoastcentricism' so prevalent in earlier research. (I readily...
- 10From:Velvet Light TrapPeer-ReviewedTEXT-CENTERED APPROACHES TO FILM study have recently been challenged by a growing interest in the conditions of film reception. The authority of a text's "production" is giving way to an awareness of the variety of its...
- 11From:International journal of communication (Online)Peer-ReviewedHow do structural market conditions affect people's media consumption over time? This article examines the evolution of Chinese pirate film consumption from the mid-1980s to 2005 as a structurational process, highlights...
- 12From:The American Enterprise (Vol. 15, Issue 5)One scourge of contemporary moviegoing is when parents bring young children to wildly inappropriate pictures. If you've been to a theater lately you've probably seen this: babies' screams competing with the howling...
- 13From:Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind (Vol. 6, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedJust as perceptual gestalten complete images and narrative gestalten complete storylines, both encouraging audiences to fill in missing information based on the information provided, the data pertaining to an imaginary...
- 14From:Film History (Vol. 24, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis article examines the ways in which public discourse conceived spectatorship of digital cinema in the United States in the late 1990s. Evaluations of digital technologies' (actual or imminent) implications for...
- 15From:Cinema Journal (Vol. 39, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThis article compares the marketing and reception of British motion pictures in the U.S. market during the 1940s and 1990s. In both eras, British filmmakers were captivated by the fantasy of conquering the American...
- 16From:American Imago (Vol. 52, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedLee's 'Malcolm X' violates most of the standard Hollywood biography rules by changing audience-film dynamic. The audience is jolted into attention by Lee's deliberately conservative style, and lured away from its...
- 17From:Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind (Vol. 2, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis article describes a new method for assessing the effect of a given film on viewers' brain activity. Brain activity was measured using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during free viewing of films, and...
- 18From:Velvet Light TrapPeer-ReviewedTraditional early cinema historiography has long claimed that the nickelodeons, the small, storefront movie theaters that were quite popular in Manhattan between 1906-07 and the early 1910s, embodied the cinema's power...
- 19From:Behavioral Sciences (Vol. 10, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedNowadays films occupy a significant portion of the media products consumed by people. In Russia, cinema is being considered as a means of individual and social transformation, which makes a contribution to the formation...
- 20From:Music and the Moving Image (Vol. 9, Issue 1)This article examines David Lynch's appropriation of pre-existing popular music as a means to engender a new mode of reception in his films. The director's uses of Roy Orbison hits serve as case studies for the semiotic...