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New Media Technologies in Film Studies and Education

The paper offers an analysis of different and new media technologies and research strategies in contemporary film studies and film education on various academic and pedagogical levels and in the context of an emerging visual and digital culture environment. Since new digitally determined culture in large posed a challenge for the film studies methodologies and film education, and also offered (and opened up) new possibilities for the dissemination of cinema specific knowledge, film scholars and film educators started to adjust their traditional language, analog based strategies to digitally oriented ones. From the problem of talking about visual media (such as film) in (inadequate) language/textual form, film scholars from the 1980s and onwards anticipated the new digital tendencies by articulating different transcription strategies that were closer to the visual nature of their object of study (through visual quotation, diagrams of visual configurations, charts, schemes, tables, etc.). Also, new digital technologies offered a more scientific basis for film studies especially in the form of statistical style analysis (such as cinemetrics) and cognitive film theory (through DIEM project – Dynamic Images and Eye Movements) which could now present their analytical results in appropriate visual terms. Besides that, even new digital tendencies emerged in the 21 century trying to come even closer to visuality of a film medium through new forms of video essays, video lectures, video papers, video journals or e-books with embedded film material and organized as a hypertext (such as an e-book about the films of Christopher Nolan by renowned film scholars David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson ; or as a counter example, a reversed media strategy in their book Minding Movies where their internet blog was transcribed in a paper book form).

film studies, film education, digital culture, cinemetrics, cognitive film theory, DIEM project, video essays

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