NEW CINEMA HISTORY AND THE COMPUTATIONAL TURN

Abstract

This paper will outline how the digitisation ofboth the film industry and contemporary research practicesbear on the work of the new cinema historian. How mightthe opportunities presented by an unprecedentedproliferation of data for example, also challenge theunspoken assumptions and ordinary practices ofconventional film studies research? And how might the‘computational turn’ present opportunities (and challenges)for a revisionist cinema history at the intersection ofqualitative historiographies (focussed on the socialexperience of the cinema) and quantitative researchapproaches such as data mining, empirical analysis anddigital visualisations?

Index Terms - new cinema history, computational turn,digital humanities