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Quantitative Historical Style Analysis

András Bálint Kovács

This presentation will introduce my research group's work on quantitative historical style analysis, which aims to describe large stylistic trends in the history of cinema and to visualize the development of these trends in space and in time as well as the detailed stylistic genealogy of individual films. Finding connections and attending to development trends is what film critics and historians since André Bazin have been doing intuitively and based on subjective impression and memory. However, a lot of stylistic and technical features are very hard to detect, especially those that develop in time and space across several films. Our ambition is to develop historical style analysis into an accurate method. This, we hope, will help us discover hitherto hidden connections and trends, and explain phenomena, such as film authorship and formal patterns, that have not been well understood in film historiography. The results of the quantitative processing of cinematic forms on a large enough corpus can be visualized with the help of advanced statistical visualization technology.

András Bálint Kovács ist Professor für Filmwissenschaft und Gründer des Instituts für Filmwissenschaft an der ELTE University, Budapest, Ungarn. Er lehrt Geschichte des modernen Films und Filmanalyse. Er war Gastprofessor an der École Normale Supérieure, Paris, an der Université de la Nouvelle Sorbonne, Paris und an der Universität Stockholm. Seine beiden aktuellen Forschungsprojetke betreffen die quantitative Stilanalyse und die psychologische Forschung zur Regulierung emotiver Reaktionen und des kausalen Denkens im Prozess des Filmsehens. Zu seinen Publikationen zählen:  The Cinema of Béla Tarr, 2013; Screening Modernism, 2008; Les Mondes d'Andrej Tarkovsky, gemeinsam mit Ákos Szilágyi, 1987; und Metropolis, Paris. The Abstract Subjective Style in Film, 1992. Er ist der ungarische Übersetzer von Deleuzes Kino-Büchern.

Dienstag, 11.06.2013
Beginn: 18:00
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