International Journal of Engineering Research and General Science

5-18

Authors: A Putcha1 , S Ferson1 , N Thornton1 , A Mannis1 , A Bhagavatula2

Abstract- This is an interdisciplinary paper integrating the concepts of engineering and Social sciences dealing with depression. This study mainly deals with audience engagement with representations of cinematic depression through Engineering risk analysis which is a continuation of the work by the authors (Putcha et al., 2020) and is part of the doctoral study of the first author at University of Liverpool. The main aim of this research work is to do a thorough review of the existing literature on depression as it relates to media, identify the main methods for measuring depression, and pick a suitable method for measuring depression and the associated Depression severity index (DSI) which is then calculated for various people before and after watching the selected movies. This will explore the effect that cinema has on depression of people. As part of the study a new method, called Liverpool method, has been developed without use of surveys to study the effect of movies on people with depression.