1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996460950003316

Autore

SCHOONOVER, Thomas David

Titolo

Dollars over dominion : the triumph of liberalism in Mexican-United States relations, 1861-1867 / Thomas David Schoonover

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baton Rouge ; London, : Louisiana State University Press, 1978

ISBN

0-8071-0368-3

Descrizione fisica

Testo elettronico (PDF) (XX, 316 p.)

Collana

ACLS Humanities E-Book

Disciplina

327.72073

Soggetti

Stati Uniti d'America - Relazioni internazionali [con il] Messico - 1861-1867

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Risorsa elettronica

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Il volume racconta l'intricata vicenda delle relazioni tra il governo confederato, quello dell'Unione degli Stati Uniti e i governi costituzionali e imperiali del Messico.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910309664903321

Autore

Heftberger Adelheid

Titolo

Digital Humanities and Film Studies : Visualising Dziga Vertov's Work / / by Adelheid Heftberger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018

ISBN

3-030-02864-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XI, 311 p. 191 illus., 91 illus. in color.)

Collana

Quantitative Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences, , 2199-0956

Disciplina

519.5

791.430233092

Soggetti

Statistics

Motion pictures—History

Russia—History

Europe, Eastern—History

Statistics for Social Sciences, Humanities, Law

Film History

Russian, Soviet, and East European History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The Measurement of Aesthetic Phenomena -- Chapter 3. Annotation and Statistics -- Chapter 4. Dziga Vertov's Films -- Chapter 5. The filmic structure as visualisation -- Chapter 6. Charts and Diagrams of Dziga Vertov -- Chapter 7. From filmic form to meaning -- Chapter 8. Summary and outlook.

Sommario/riassunto

This book highlights the quantitative methods of data mining and information visualization and explores their use in relation to the films and writings of the Russian director, Dziga Vertov. The theoretical basis of the work harkens back to the time when a group of Russian artists and scholars, known as the “formalists,” developed new concepts of how art could be studied and measured. This book brings those ideas to the digital age. One of the central questions the book intends to address is, “How can hypothetical notions in film studies be supported or falsified using empirical data and statistical tools?” The first stage



involves manual and computer-assisted annotation of the films, leading to the production of empirical data which is then used for statistical analysis but more importantly for the development of visualizations. Studies of this type furthermore shed light on the field of visual presentation of time-based processes; an area which has its origin in the Russian formalist sphere of the 1920s and which has recently gained new relevance due to technological advances and new possibilities for computer-assisted analysis of large and complex data sets. In order to reach a profound understanding of Vertov and his films, the manual or computer-assisted data analysis must be combined with film-historical knowledge and a study of primary sources. In addition, the status of the surviving film materials and the precise analysis of these materials combined with knowledge of historical film technology provide insight into archival policy and political culture in the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 30s.