Digital Tools and Methods for Film Studies
Talk on digital tools and methods for film studies at the BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg
Digital Tools and Methods for Film Studies
On May 17, Manuel Burghardt was invited to the Brandenburgisch Technische Universität (BTU) Cottbus-Senftenberg, to give a talk about Digital Humanities approaches to film studies. Below you will find the slides of his talk (German only), along with some quick links and references that are mentioned in the slides.
References
- Berry, D. M. (2011). The computational turn: Thinking about the digital humanities . Culture Machine, 12, 1–22.
- Moretti, F. (2000). Conjectures on world literature. New Left Review, (Jan / Feb), 54–68.
- Ross, M., Grauer, M., & Freisleben, B. (2009). Digital Tools in Media Studies. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag.
- Acland, C. R., & Hoyt, E. (2016). The Arclight Guidebook to Media History and the Digital Humanities. REFRAME Books.
- Korte, H. (1999). Einführung in die systematische Filmanalyse. Erich Schmidt Verlag.
- Hickey, W. (14.4.2014). A Statistical Analysis of the Work of Bob Ross.
- Tsivian, Y. (2014). Vortrag auf der 1. Cinemetrics Conference, 2014, Chicago.
- Mamber, S. (2002). Space-time mappings as database browsing tools. In Media Computing (pp. 39-55). Springer US.
- Salt, Barry (2006). Moving into Pictures. Starwood.
- Pfister, M. (2001). Das Drama. München: Fink Verlag.
Links and Resources
- DHd working group “Film und Video”
- Opensubtitles
- IMSDb
- Cinemetrics (Yuri Tsivian), database of shot frequencies and shot lengths
- Videogrep: Automatic Supercuts with Python.
- Pretentious-o-Meter
- Webtool for color extraction: TinEye
- Cinemetics project site (Frederic Brodbeck), example analyses