Session: Make – THATCamp Performing Arts 2013 http://performingarts2013.thatcamp.org Just another THATCamp site Sun, 23 Jun 2013 17:43:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 Intersection of Digital Humanities and Cinema/Media Studies http://performingarts2013.thatcamp.org/2013/06/20/intersection-of-digital-humanities-and-cinemamedia-studies/ Thu, 20 Jun 2013 17:01:20 +0000 http://performingarts2013.thatcamp.org/?p=358 Continue reading ]]>

I’d like to propose a session to bring together any cinema studies people who are at this THATCamp, to explore how digital humanities methods are being used and supported in the analysis of film/video. Some people refer to it as quantitative film studies or cinemetrics in projects like:

We might also look at different visualization projects:

Last year Miriam Posner and Jason Mittell led a workshop at the SCMS Conference (Society for Cinema and Media Studies) to interrogate the intersection between digital humanities and cinema/media studies (miriamposner.com/blog/?p=1239). Some of the questions posed are:

  • Where do the two fields converge, and what are their differences?
  • Is a digital humanist ipso facto a media scholar, or do the two fields present different criteria for entry?
  • Media scholars are particularly adept at analyzing cultural representations, such as of race and gender. Might media scholars bring some of these strengths to digital humanities?
  • Many media scholars are interested in issues of reception and audience studies. How might such subfields engage with digital humanities?
  • What might media studies offer to digital humanities, and vice versa?
  • Conversely, do the two fields possess epistemological or methodological contradictions?
  • How might the growing interest in digital humanities alter the field of film and media studies?

I’d like to build off of this and turn it around into a maker session, where we compile links to projects/resources/publications (existing or ideal) that together could form a primer for cinema scholars/critics/enthusiasts/whatever to start exploring DH.

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