Visualising data in digital cinema studies: more than just going through the motions?
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2016
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Verhoeven, Deb
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Film and Screen Media, University College Cork
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This article examines the critical role visualisation plays for digital cinema studies and proposes that cinema studies has an equally critical role to play in evaluating and developing visualisation methods. The article reflects on work undertaken in the Kinomatics Project, a multidisciplinary study that explores, analyses and visualises the industrial geometry of motion pictures and which is one of the first “big data” studies of contemporary cultural diffusion. Its examination of global film flow rests on a large dataset of showtime information comprising more than 330 million records that describe every film screening in forty-eight countries over a thirtymonth period as well as additional aggregated box-office data.
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Digital cinemastudies , Visualisation , Kinomatics Project , Motion pictures , Industrial geometry , Big data , Contemporary cultural diffusion , Global film flow , Dataset , Showtime information
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Verhoeven, D. (2016) 'Visualising data in digital cinema studies: more than just going through the motions?', Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 11, pp. 92–104. https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.11.06