While some film theorists are talking about a presumed death of cinema, others discuss a second golden age for TV. The current study proposes an argument that contemporary television series (as a product of post-modernism) are benefiting from cinema's previous achievements in order to upgrade their quality. To illustrate this idea, selected scenes and episodes from some narrative quality TV series are textually analyzed and compared to film theories of the three main film traditions in cinema's history (classical, modern, and post-modern). The genres of these shows follow the formulaic distinctions ...

Using Gender Framing and Queer theories, an inductive and qualitative research method; this study looks into the evolution of sexual contents in Lebanese cinema especially in the post-war era, tackling the causes behind this shift resulting in screening of liberalistic rather than conservative contents. It focuses on the history of Lebanese cinema and how the thematic representations changed in time depending on historical, political and economic factors. Focus was on the themes treated in films and on the occurrence of sexual scenes. Results showed that War by itself was a transitional phase ...