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Doing Digital Film History : Concepts, Tools, Practices.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dang, Sarah-Mai, author.
- Series:
- Studies in Digital History and Hermeneutics Series
- Studies in Digital History and Hermeneutics Series ; v.11
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Digital humanities.
- Audiovisual education.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (450 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Basel/Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2024.
- Summary:
- This book explores the transformative impact of digital technologies on the field of film history research and teaching. Edited by Sarah-Mai Dang, Tim van der Heijden, and Christian Gosvig Olesen, it is the result of an international research network and conference held between 2019 and 2023. The volume examines digital tools and methodologies in film and media studies, addressing topics such as digital archives, data-driven research, visualization techniques, and critical approaches to computational methods. Contributions from interdisciplinary experts discuss the challenges and opportunities of integrating digital methods into film historiography, emphasizing both theoretical and practical perspectives. Intended for scholars, educators, and practitioners in film studies, digital humanities, and related fields, the book highlights innovative strategies for analyzing, interpreting, and presenting film history in the digital era. Generated by AI.
- Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Doing Digital Film History: An Introduction
- Prologue
- The DH Dilemma: Knowing More & Knowing for Sure vs. Never Knowing At All
- I Search
- Finding Female Film Editors in Wikidata: How to Query and Visualize Filmographic Records
- The Digitization of Silent Films and the Teaching of Film Historiography: Entanglements and Opportunities
- Collecting Data and Connecting Traces: Researching and Modeling Sources on Doña Francisquita (S 1934)
- Teaching Small-Gauge Formats with Digital Methods
- II Data
- Managing the Past: Research Data and Film History
- (Re)Visioning Women’s Film History: The Women Film Pioneers Project and Digital Curatorial-Editorial Labor
- Data Cleaning and Diversity in Digital Film Historiography
- Critically Curating Data in Cultural Heritage Collections
- III Analysis
- Timelines of Scholarly Video Annotation: For a Tool Critical History of Digital Film Historical Scholarship
- Distant Viewing the Amateur Film Platform
- Pursuing Film History with Digital Images: Towards Visual Literacy in the Age of AI and Social Media
- Managing Tools and Expectations: Dos and Don’ts of Teaching Digital Methods for Film Analysis and Film Historiography
- IV Visualization
- Visualization In/As Digital Media Studies
- A Scalable Perspective on Historical Cinema Cultures: Studying Movie Going in Amsterdam (1952‒1972) with Digital Data and Tools
- Catastrophe or Pointillism of Disaster? Annotating and Visualizing Patterns of Ecological Imagination
- “Pure Information, Not the Real Thing”: Digital Hermeneutics and Nelson Sullivan’s Videographic Legacy (1983‒1989)
- Epilogue
- Narration, Agency, and the Digital Film Historiography Group Chat
- List of Authors
- Index Generated by AI.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- ISBN:
- 9783111082486
- 3111082482
- OCLC:
- 1482262168
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