Few organisations exhibit the importance of physicality in leadership as explicitly as the symphony orchestra. While usually attributed to the direction of the conductor my own experience suggests that leading in orchestral performance is grounded in physical relations between individuals and...

Film has a number of characteristics that define it as a commodity-type and hence distinguish it from other commodity-types. Not only is film non-diminishable in consumption (because it is consumed in the mind of the viewer), but also the images that make up a film are infinitely reproducible...

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...

How should a video rental chain replenish its stock of newmovies over time? Any such policy should consist of two key dimensions: (i) the number of copies purchased; and (ii) when to remove amovie from the front shelves and replace it by a newly released one.We first analyze this bi-variate...

This article explores the interplay among economic imperatives within the entertainment business, the mafia's role in the creation of its own media image, and the production of gangster films. Taking Japan as a case study, the paper shows that, when given the chance to influence the content of...