scholarly journals Visualising data in digital cinema studies

2016 ◽  
pp. 92-104
Author(s):  
Deb Verhoeven
Keyword(s):  
Film Flow ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Motion Pictures ◽  
Large Dataset ◽  
Cinema Studies ◽  
Digital Cinema ◽  
Multidisciplinary Study ◽  
Box Office ◽  
Cultural Diffusion

This article examines the critical role visualisation plays for digital cinema studies and proposes that cinema studies has an equally critical role to play in evaluating and developing visualisation methods. The article reflects on work undertaken in the Kinomatics Project, a multidisciplinary study that explores, analyses and visualises the industrial geometry of motion pictures and which is one of the first “big data” studies of contemporary cultural diffusion. Its examination of global film flow rests on a large dataset of showtime information comprising more than 330 million records that describe every film screening in forty-eight countries over a thirtymonth period as well as additional aggregated box-office data.

Resource Similarity, Market Commonality, and Spatial Distribution of Hotel Competitive Sets

2021 ◽  
pp. 109634802098857
Author(s):  
Zvi Schwartz ◽  
Timothy Webb
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Model ◽  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
Performance Evaluation ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Principal Agent ◽  
Large Dataset ◽  
Principal Agent Theory ◽  
Agent Theory ◽  
Performance And Evaluation

Index scores and competitive sets (compsets) play a critical role in the performance and evaluation of hotels. The reliance on these metrics has drawn skepticism in recent years as competitive sets may be opportunistically chosen, creating bias in performance evaluation. Drawing from the principal–agent theory and the theory of incentives, we explore whether the distance of the competitors chosen for a hotel’s compset influences revenue per available room (RevPAR) index scores. Based on the concepts of resource similarity and market commonality, we develop a novel mathematical model through which we empirically analyze a large dataset of 10,000 compsets. We find evidence that competitor distance influences index performance and that this relationship is bidirectional. Results show that hotels that outperform the competition may use distance to inflate RevPAR indices, while those that underperform may use distance to further reduce scores. These conflicting results may be reflected from the reverse motivations of the stakeholders.

Country Music and Film

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barry Mazor
Keyword(s):  
Motion Pictures ◽  
Music History ◽  
Country Music ◽  
Cinema Studies ◽  
New Hollywood ◽  
Film Archives ◽  
Music Film

This chapter presents an overview of available writing and research materials within country music history and cinema studies disciplines on the interaction of commercial country music and theatrical motion pictures—how the music and its practitioners have been represented on-screen and reception of both have been affected by that representation, and how the music has contributed to films. The deficit in systematic resources for study is described—the lack of country music film archives, filmographies of related motion pictures, and dedicated catalogues. Literature (or its absence) engaging country music and the screen as they evolved and related in the silent, prewar sound, postwar country music boom, and post-1970 “New Hollywood” periods is outlined. How country music performances have served narratives and as self-contained cinematic elements are differentiated, and film’s continuing use as an agency for shaping country’s cultural respectability is outlined.

scholarly journals The Success of Motion Pictures

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Klaus Keil ◽  
Tobias Mosig
Keyword(s):  
Potential Risk ◽  
Film Industry ◽  
Intrinsic Value ◽  
Motion Pictures ◽  
Film Festivals ◽  
Commercial Success ◽  
Box Office ◽  
Film Stars ◽  
The One

THE SUCCESS OF MOTION PICTURES – AN ECONOMIC GAMBLE: SELECTED MOVIE EXPLOITATION PHENOMENA More than 5,000 marketable movies are produced worldwide every year - a risky economic gamble running into billions. Despite the potential risk of commercial failure, film producers still try to achieve outstanding box-office results. There are also special movies that are able to preserve or even increase their intrinsic value due to the longevity of their commercial success. This article focuses on distinctive movie exploitation phenomena, which can be observed worldwide. These phenomena show the unpredictability of film success due to the fact that the cycles, the duration, and the progress of film exploitation are unforeseeable. MythSuccess is the big myth of the international film industry: on the one hand enormous profits, glamour, film stars, red carpet shows at Cannes, Berlin, and Venice - the big film festivals. And as climax - the Oscars in...

The impact of film reviews on the box office performance of art house versus mainstream motion pictures

2006 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerda Gemser ◽  
Martine Van Oostrum ◽  
Mark A. A. M. Leenders
Keyword(s):  
Motion Pictures ◽  
Box Office ◽  
Film Reviews ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Box Office Performance
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