Film Lab
Film Lab
The fall colloquium of the Graduate Field Committee in Film Studies, dubbed “Film Lab,” will take as its object of inquiry the possibilities for doing close analysis of films via the resources of digital scholarship. We will begin by establishing baseline of familiarity with some established benchmarks in the field via models of classical film analysis by Raymond Bellour and David Bordwell. Thereafter, the colloquium will consist of the collaborative production of a digital “scholarly” edition of two films, His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1941), and Entr’acte (Rene Clair, 1924). We will analyze these films using all the resources at our disposal, including segmentation, thematic analysis, and statistical analysis. We will produce a number of different layers of commentary, ranging from written, voice-over commentary, and data visualization.