It started with a Twitter joke. As the threat of the COVID-19 pandemic spread around the world, governments instituted different kinds of lock down procedures to limit the amount of people coming into their country in an effort to reduce the possibilities of contagion. These procedures varied widely, from shutting down all incoming flights, toContinue reading “Borders in the Time of COVID-19”
Category Archives: DH & Media Studies
Telescoping, Part Two: How to (Not) Watch One Million Moving Images
In my last post I argued for a form of “distant reading” that could be applied to film studies, and claimed that such a practice could be just as useful as our current close reading practices. In this post I continue this line of argumentation by considering one such way in which distant reading couldContinue reading “Telescoping, Part Two: How to (Not) Watch One Million Moving Images”
Telescopía, o ¿Cómo Ver El Cine Desde Lejos?
¿Qué significará ver el cine “desde lejos”? En este escrito quiero considerar cómo algo similar a lo que Franco Moretti ha llamado “la literatura vista desde lejos” (distant reading) en los estudios literarios podría funcionar en el estudio del cine. Si nuestro actual método para analizar películas es semejante al close reading, es decir, verContinue reading “Telescopía, o ¿Cómo Ver El Cine Desde Lejos?”
Telescoping, or Distant Reading for Film Studies
What would it mean to “distantly watch” films? In this post I am interested in considering how something akin to what Franco Moretti has called distant reading* in literary studies might function in film studies. If our current method of evidence gathering for film analysis is close reading—watching a film or a series of filmsContinue reading “Telescoping, or Distant Reading for Film Studies”
Introduction to the Problems of Film
As I mentioned in a previous post, this term I am taking an introductory grad course on digital humanities, and as part of it, I will be writing a series of posts relating this area of humanistic inquiry to the field of media studies. I have chosen to begin exploring these intersections by zeroing inContinue reading “Introduction to the Problems of Film”
Intersections between Digital Humanities & Media Studies: Attempts At A Primer
The time is now ripe to join the insights of decades of film and media studies with the new modes of information management, visualization, and dissemination that digital technologies are enabling. Who better to reimagine the relationship of scholarly form to content than those who have devoted their careers to studying narrative structure, representation andContinue reading “Intersections between Digital Humanities & Media Studies: Attempts At A Primer”
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