The Digitization of Silent Films and the Teaching of Film Historiography: Entanglements and Opportunities

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1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments V
3. Contents VII
4. Doing Digital Film History: An Introduction 1
5. Prologue
6. The DH Dilemma: Knowing More & Knowing for Sure vs. Never Knowing At All 17
7. I Search
8. Finding Female Film Editors in Wikidata: How to Query and Visualize Filmographic Records 47
9. The Digitization of Silent Films and the Teaching of Film Historiography: Entanglements and Opportunities 67
10. Collecting Data and Connecting Traces: Researching and Modeling Sources on Doña Francisquita (S 1934) 89
11. Teaching Small-Gauge Formats with Digital Methods 109
12. II Data
13. Managing the Past: Research Data and Film History 135
14. (Re)Visioning Women’s Film History: The Women Film Pioneers Project and Digital Curatorial-Editorial Labor 157
15. Data Cleaning and Diversity in Digital Film Historiography 185
16. Critically Curating Data in Cultural Heritage Collections 201
17. III Analysis
18. Timelines of Scholarly Video Annotation: For a Tool Critical History of Digital Film Historical Scholarship 223
19. Distant Viewing the Amateur Film Platform 239
20. Pursuing Film History with Digital Images: Towards Visual Literacy in the Age of AI and Social Media 271
21. Managing Tools and Expectations: Dos and Don’ts of Teaching Digital Methods for Film Analysis and Film Historiography 299
22. IV Visualization
23. Visualization In/As Digital Media Studies 315
24. A Scalable Perspective on Historical Cinema Cultures: Studying Movie Going in Amsterdam (1952‒1972) with Digital Data and Tools 337
25. Catastrophe or Pointillism of Disaster? Annotating and Visualizing Patterns of Ecological Imagination 369
26. “Pure Information, Not the Real Thing”: Digital Hermeneutics and Nelson Sullivan’s Videographic Legacy (1983‒1989) 393
27. Epilogue
28. Narration, Agency, and the Digital Film Historiography Group Chat 423
29. List of Authors 429
30. Index 435