Paradoxically, villainous characters in film, literature, and video games can be very popular.
Previous research in the traditions of cognitive media theory and affective disposition theory …

How serialized crime shows became an American obsession TV shows and podcasts like
Making a Murderer, Serial, and Atlanta Monster have taken the cultural zeitgeist by storm …

This paper discusses the narrative construction of “villains''in COVID-19 Thai online news,
proposing that media portrayals of subjects related to COVID-19 were negatively framed as …

This paper addresses the paradoxical nature of entertainment experiences like the pleasure
derived from violent media content. Building on the psychological concept of …

ABSTRACT The Captain (Der Hauptmann), directed by Robert Schwentke, was the German
director's first film with a German crew and in his native language since 2003. It was …

Moral ambiguity has become an aspect of modern drama characters. Protagonists in
modern movies were yesterday's antagonists, yet with detailed background to trigger …

تغيّرت الصورة التي تقدمها الأفلام لأدوار الشر بشكل كبير عن فترات سابقة، حيث كان يتم
تقديمهم في شكل أعداء البطل الذين يقومون بأفعال غير أخلاقية لا يمكن قبولها، إلى شخصيات أكثر …‎

Beethoven's Fidelio is the opera of freedom:'Zur Freiheit, zur Freiheit!'Florestan sings in his
dungeon;'O Freiheit!', the prisoners sing during their short walk 'in free air'.[1] And its topic is …

El prologuista se enfrenta a una responsabilidad de la que—está seguro—saldrá mal
librado. Un buen prólogo seguramente aguzará, por comparación, la mirada del lector para …

Perhaps no other art form relies upon the expressive and communicative potential of the
human face quite as much as narrative cinema. It comes as no surprise then that the face …