Digital Humanities and Film Studies Visualising Dziga Vertov's Work /

• Main Author: Heftberger, Adelheid (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Quantitative Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences,
• Subjects: Statistics .; Motion pictures-History.; Russia-History.; Europe, Eastern-History.; Statistics for Social Sciences, Humanities, Law.; Film History.; Russian, Soviet, and East European History.

This book highlights the quantitative methods of data mining and information visualization and explores their use in relation to the films and writings of the Russian director, Dziga Vertov. The theoretical basis of the work harkens back to the time when a group of Russian artists and scholars, know...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. The Measurement of Aesthetic Phenomena
• Chapter 3. Annotation and Statistics
• Chapter 4. Dziga Vertov's Films
• Chapter 5. The filmic structure as visualisation
• Chapter 6. Charts and Diagrams of Dziga Vertov
• Chapter 7. From filmic form to meaning
• Chapter 8. Summary and outlook.