Local Cinema History at Scale: Data and Methods for Comparative Exhibition Studies
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Date
2022
Authors
Aronson, Michael
Peterson, Elizabeth
Hayden, Gabriele
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University of Oregon
Abstract
Digital tools and digitized sources have expanded our ability to research and present regional
film histories, along with the hope of conducting comparative work across both place and time.
Alongside these projects are increasing calls for more deliberate coordination of tools, methods,
and sources to create more meaningful comparisons. However, it remains difficult for
researchers to know what digital projects exist for comparative work, and the methods, points of
comparison, data structure, and sources used all considerably vary. Utilizing research data
management principles, we conducted an exploratory survey of local film exhibition digital
projects to document the current historiographic landscape, and to assess existing coverage of
geography, time, sources, data structures, metadata schema, data accessibility and
reproducibility. The dataset from the survey results can be shared by researchers to better
discover each other’s work, but also to serve as a guide to best practices going forward.
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34 pages
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Aronson, M., Peterson, E., Hayden, G. Local Cinema History at Scale: Data and Methods for Comparative Exhibition Studies. University of Oregon Scholars’ Bank [Preprint. Forthcoming in Iluminace: Journal for Film Theory, History, and Aesthetics] 2022.