This article analyzes the projected image of Barcelona using a combination of qualitative visual content analysis and frequency data. The study focuses on 48 promotional videos released by the destination management organization, Turisme de Barcelona, and ten fiction films. The results suggest...

I use two statistical regression models to analyze the American Film Industry based on the relationship between film box office and specific factors of film productions for investment considerations. The first model contains demographic factors specific to the lead actor appearing in the film,...

FlixTime is a movie recommendation web application that recommends a group of friends having different interests in movie genres, some movies that most of them will enjoy. The system uses Hybrid approach to recommend movies due to the downsides of using only content based approach or...

The success of streaming services seemed to mark the end of the two-decade-long debate about online piracy. However, the emergence of new websites aggregating and distributing illegally content from multiple streaming platforms rekindled the debate. In this paper, we are interested in...

The development of English-language skills, a near necessity in today's global economy, is heavily influenced by historical national decisions about whether to subtitle or dub TV content. While prior studies of language acquisition have focused on schools, we show the overwhelming influence of...

Enhancing cultural awareness and tourist visitations to South Korea and its cultural sites through historical dramas -- Exploring the discrepancy film industrys impact on Destination Marketing in Bulgaria -- Cinematic tourists: forms of authenticity in the consumption of the Moroccan film...

Aim/purpose - This study explores how the content feature and source of eWOM affect people's intentions and further analyses the effectiveness of eWOM on people's intention to watch movies. Design/methodology/approach - The study considers two dimensions of movie reviews, including the source...

Using a uniquely collected dataset on Chinese movies, we investigate the impact of studios’ profit orientation on their movie themes under censorship. The Value Adjustment Mechanism (VAM), which links executives’ incomes with studios’ box office within 5 years after the studios are...

Conventional wisdom holds that illegal copies cannibalize legitimate sales, even though previous research has found mixed effects, with illegal copies acting as both a substitute and complement. Yet, a relatively unexamined aspect to date is the quality of illegal copies. Building on product...

The electric field manipulation of a magnetic order is a key feature of advanced information technologies and the development of room-temperature multiferroic magnetoelectrics remains an important task. In this work, we report novel single-phase magnetoelectric (ME) films consisting of a (Co...

The US trade war against China in 2018-2019 can either enhance or diminish the US soft power in China, depending on whether it is recognized as legitimate by Chinese citizens. We study how the viewership of US movies--an important element of the US soft power--is affected by the trade war,...

Consumers often rely on product rankings to make purchase decisions. Using data from China’s movie market, we examined the demand effects of opening-week box office rankings. We allowed two potential channels through which such rankings affect consumer demand: quality signaling and information...

This study intended to broaden the research on brand-extended film and contribute to the generalization of the theory by applying the concept of brand extension to the film industry. By applying multiple regression analysis, we can grasp the effect of movie performance predictors on the...

Abstract Dark tourism is a place for tourists to travel to understand the deaths, suffering, and tragedy. Nowadays, movie makers have positioned dark tourism as a source of edutainment for society, contributing to the marketing of dark places. This type of education helps children to make...

This chapter examines how the accountant has been portrayed in popular culture. Through the media of music, film, fiction and jokes, the accountant has been stereotyped and often satirized. This chapter explores some of the features of this portrayal, from the boring beancounter to the corrupt...

Why are certain movies more successful in some markets than others? Are the entertainment products we consume reflective of our core values and beliefs? These questions drive our investigation into the relationship between a society's oral tradition and the financial success of films. We combine...

Why are certain movies more successful in some markets than others? Are the entertainment products we consume reflective of our core values and beliefs? These questions drive our investigation into the relationship between a society's oral tradition and the financial success of films. We combine...