Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Introduction 7
4. Databases for Early Cinema Research 17
5. Culture in Context 27
6. Measuring Film Popularity 43
7. Compartmentalisation and its Influence on Film Distribution and Exhibition in The Netherlands, 1934-1936 55
8. Mapping the Movies 69
9. Putting Itinerant Cinemas on the Map 83
10. Cinemetrics, Part of the Humanities’ Cyberinfrastructure 93
11. Videana: A Software Toolkit for Scientific Film Studies 101
12. First Steps Towards Digital Formalism: The Vienna Vertov Collection 117
13. Ghost Director 133
14. Automatic Movie Trailer Generation Based on Semantic Video Patterns 145
15. Key Measures and Key Visuals in Brazilian and German TV Annual Reviews 159
16. Text-Based Film Retrieval 2006 171
17. How to Capture Offers of Filmic Effectiveness 177