FAVh044 Digital Tools in Cinema Studies

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2022

The course is not taught in Autumn 2022

Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Taught in person.
Teacher(s)
Mgr. et Mgr. Terézia Porubčanská (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Pavel Skopal, Ph.D.
Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture – Faculty of Arts
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
there are 18 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Course objectives
The aim of this course is to introduce the field of digital humanities with the intention of using digital tools in cinema history research on a set of individual research projects. The main goal of this course is to show how digital technologies can enrich the methodologies of historical research as well as to introduce new questions that this approach can reveal. This course offers an introduction to digital humanities, the basic technologies, personalities and projects that have fundamentally influenced this field.
Learning outcomes
This course will orient students in a wide variety of digital tools and techniques that allow researchers to ask new types of questions. After completing the course, the students should be able to formulate research questions and navigate themselves in choosing the proper digital technology for their research.
Syllabus
  • Introduction to the field of digital humanities
  • Introduction to the digital technologies in the field of cinema studies
  • Data, metadata, databases
  • Oral history and textual analysis
  • Spatial and temporal visualisation
  • Network analysis
  • VR and 3D visualisation
Literature
  • Research methods for the digital humanities. Online. Edited by Lewis Levenberg - Tai Neilson - David Rheams. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. xvii, 325. ISBN 9783319967127. [citováno 2024-04-24] info
  • BURDICK, Anne, Johanna DRUCKER, Peter LUNENFELD, Todd Samuel PRESNER and Jeffrey T. SCHNAPP. Digital_Humanities. Online. Translated by David Vichnar. Vydání první. Praha: Academia, 2019. 191 stran. ISBN 9788020028655. [citováno 2024-04-24] info
  • The Routledge companion to new cinema history. Online. Edited by Daniël Biltereyst - Richard Maltby - Philippe Meers. First published. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019. xxiii, 409. ISBN 9780367659578. [citováno 2024-04-24] info
  • Digital tools in media studies : analysis and research : an overview. Online. Edited by Michael Ross - Manfred Grauer - Bernd Freisleben. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2009. 191 s. ISBN 9783837610239. [citováno 2024-04-24] info
  • Cultural heritage infrastructures in digital humanities. Online. Edited by Agiatis Benardou - Erik Champion - Costis Dallas - Lorna M. Hughes. First published. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018. xvii, 172. ISBN 9781472447128. [citováno 2024-04-24] info
Teaching methods
The course is a combination of lectures that introduce the given topic and practical seminars where students will prepare, present and discuss their research project.
Assessment methods
Written test (max 30 points), final project (max 70 points). A minimum of 75 points is needed to pass the course.
Language of instruction
Slovak
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