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”
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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”
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