Considering that motion characteristic is very important for semantic movie analysis, and it contains abundant information in action movies, the structure tensor analysis is used for feature extraction due to its capability of representing both spatial and temporal characteristics of a shot. Firstly, ...
The word ''genre'' comes from the French word for ''kind'' or ''type.'' Most people are familiar with the different kinds of movie genres (such as comedy, horror, romance, and action) and the characteristics shared by the movies within each genre. Literature also has various types of...
I have been watching his improvements in English (along with his action movies) for over a decade, and I am always impressed whenever I see him speak English in public because he just gets better and better all the time. Compare his commentary on the 2000 movie, Shanghai Noon (in which ...
However, if parental involvement was assured, pro-social behavior and civic engagement of subjects increased – which was explained by the team-oriented multiplayer options in action video games (Ferguson, 2011). On the other hand, playing video games is associated with multiple enhancing effects: ...
Future research can identify other factors that are important for the success of movies in an international context. After identifying relevant factors countries may be clustered into homogeneous segments and different strategies may be developed and targeted to specific segments.doi:10.1108/...
In either case, however, appropriate pilot action would depend on having displays that reveal the existence and nature of the failure in this system. Redundancy in this kind of automatic control system and a requirement for full or partial authority operation after a single failure, however, ...
Movies have portrayed war, along with its inherent struggles, horrors and opportunities for heroism, since the early years of film. The category of war movies spans nearly all film genres, including action, suspense, romance, westerns and even comedy. The themes presented in war movies vary and...
He created epic theatre, a unique type of theatre that distances its audience from the events being depicted in order to inspire political and social action.Who Was Bertolt Brecht? A twentieth-century German playwright, theatre practitioner, and theorist about the purpose and mechanisms of theatre,...
Stacks of video tapes revealed "home movies" of hog-tied women, orgies of lust, and young girls, their faces contorted in hideous grimace as they are forced to partake in oral sex and torture. One of the sex tapes showed terrified 33-year-old Debbie Dubs being sexually abused so badly...
A computer-generated scene is generated as background for a live action set, for display on a panel of light emitting diodes (LEDs). Characteristics of light output by the LED panel