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No Longer a Shot in the Dark: Engineering a Robust Environment for Film Study

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Representation of film texts for scholars and students has been fraught with difficulties imposed by the very nature of the text. The time-varying image track presented hurdles to close significant challenges to formulation of units of meaning and analysis. The digital environment offers opportunities for addressing these problems. We offer here a model of the film document as a bundle of time-varying signals. We demonstrate using this model to construct a system for close analysis of film texts, including precise measurement of attributes. Finally, we consider some consequence for the pedagogical environment.

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  1. Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley

    Bertrand Augst

  2. School of Library ↦ Information Sciences, University of North Texas, USA

    Brian C. O'Connor

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Augst, B., O'Connor, B.C. No Longer a Shot in the Dark: Engineering a Robust Environment for Film Study. Computers and the Humanities 33, 345–363 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1002459729916

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