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”
Category Archives: The Problems of Film
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”
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