Doing Digital Film History: An Introduction

Sarah-Mai Dang, Tim van der Heijden, Christian Gosvig Olesen

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Abstract

How has the digital turn shaped the practices of “doing film history” in both re-search and teaching? That is the main question of this book. While computational approaches have been used by film historians since the 1960s and 1970s, the arrival and use of digital tools and methods in recent decades has fundamentally changed the ways we search, analyze, interpret, present, and so think and write about film history. This is at the levels of both “close” and “distant”–or “scalable” – reading and viewing, and quantitative and qualitative methodologies, as well as those approaches in between. And it extends from digital film archival practices and data-driven search in both small and large film historical collections to the visualization and “distant viewing” of film historical materials, as well as their dissemination on digital platforms. This book addresses these fundamental issues for researching and teaching film history in the digital age.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDoing Digital Film History
Subtitle of host publicationConcepts, Tools, Practices
EditorsSarah-Mai Dang, Tim van der Heijden, Christian Gosvig Olesen
Place of PublicationBerlin; Boston
PublisherDe Gruyter Oldenbourg
Pages1-14
Number of pages15
ISBN (Electronic)9783111082486
ISBN (Print)9783111081496
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 30 Dec 2024

Publication series

SeriesStudies in Digital History and Hermeneutics
Volume11
ISSN2629-4540

Keywords

  • film history
  • digital history
  • digital film historiography
  • media history
  • digital humanities
  • digital hermeneutics
  • data visualization
  • audiovisual archives

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