Graduate Student Workshop: “Contemporary Digital Humanities Approaches to Research in Italian, Francophone, and Cinema Studies”
Beginning with examples of some of the most recent and promising digital humanities projects directed by scholars of Italian, Francophone, and cinema studies, this workshop provides participants with a basic understanding of the kinds of research questions that can be addressed ideally by DH methodologies along with strategies for project design and implementation.
Allison Cooper will give a talk on “How Do You Watch Half a Million Films? Cinema Studies in the Era of Big Data” on January 18th.
Allison Cooper is Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Cinema Studies at Bowdoin College, in Maine. Her research is on modern and contemporary Italian cinema and culture, with a focus on the relationship between narrative film and place. She has published articles on individual films and on the social aspects of cinema, such as open-air cinema, and the connections films make between stars and particular places such as Rome. She is currently at work on Cinematic Rome between the Sacred and the Profane, a book-length analysis of filmic representations of Rome and their treatment of the city’s dual identity as capital of the Catholic Church and capital of the Italian state. In addition to her work on Italian cinema, she directs Kinolab, a digital humanities project for the collection and analysis of narrative, documentary, and experimental film.
Sponsored by: The Department of French and Italian, The Center for Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, The Film Studies Program, The Department of History of Art
