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Who's Trending in 1910s American Cinema? Exploring ECHO and MHDL at Scale with Arclight
In this article, the authors apply two interrelated methods of distant reading, Scaled Entity Search (SES) and query comparison, to early cinema history. By querying the thirty-five thousand filmographic records of Einar Lauritzen and Gunnar Lundquist's American Film-Index, which were digitized by Paul C. Spehr and Susan Dalton in the 1990s, through the 2 million pages of the Media History Digital Library, the authors quantitatively measured the “top trending” credited personnel in the film trade press and fan magazines during the period 1908–20. The authors attend to the historiographical limitations of these corpora and methods before presenting the top trending personnel, directors, cinematographers, and scenarists revealed by this approach and conclude that quantitative and computational methods based on large-scale data sets offer a significant avenue for research on the history of early cinema.
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Uncharted : Lewis and Clark in Arcane America
\"High adventure on the frontier of muskets and magic!\"--Jacket.
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Lenses for Lantern: Data Mining, Visualization, and Excavating Film History's Neglected Sources
The Media History Digital Library has digitized nearly one million pages of film and media publications, creating new opportunities for gathering evidence and new challenges for interpretation. In this essay, the author, who developed the Media History Digital Library's search engine Lantern, analyzes data on the circulation of historic film periodicals and how frequently scholars have cited the same magazines. The author argues that the field of film studies has concentrated on a small number of canonical titles, such as Variety and Photoplay, and neglected the majority of publications. As an aid to interpreting the broader range of sources now digitally available, the author proposes integrating data visualization and topic modeling with the existing research methods of close reading, search, and archival research.
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DISTRIBUTION'S RETURN TRIP: Two Hollywood Studios, Money, and Japan, 1921-1941
The commercial distribution of films has always been premised on a round trip: movies go out, money comes back. Most scholarly attention to distribution-itself a neglected area of study compared to production and exhibition-has tended to ignore the return trip of revenue back to the studio. This article examines the distribution operations of two Hollywood studios, United Artists and Warner Bros., in Japan during the 1920s and 1930s. The author discusses numerous challenges the studios faced in collecting and transferring revenue from Japanese exhibitors back to the United States and considers the significance of the studios' decisions in the context of imperial Japan and the lead-up to the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
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A Case Study of Rural North Missouri Teacher Perceptions of the Missouri Model Evaluation System and the Network for Educator Effectiveness: Impact on Practice
In 1983 the National Commission for Excellence in Education investigated claimed that U.S. schools were failing to adequately educate children. The Commission identified many inconsistencies nationwide in areas of access, teacher standards, learning standards, and accountability. This investigation led to an evolution of legislation such as the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 and Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015, which have had their own unique impacts on the educational system in the United States. Common to each legislation is the need for teacher evaluation and accountability. The process of evaluating teachers has evolved to a norm in the profession, pairing educational leaders and educators in a collaborative environment, collaborating to discuss strategies for growth. Missouri requires teachers to be evaluated to monitor effectiveness using a set of principles created by the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and approved by the legislature. Little knowledge in Missouri concerns the implementation of these principles and its growth model, especially among rural school districts. This qualitative study will use interviews and focus groups to gather perceptions from rural practitioners regarding two commonly used evaluation tools in the State of Missouri. Qualitative data will be coded and disseminated to reveal teacher perceptions about the effectiveness of each tool when considering its impact on work in the classroom.
Dissertation
Keeping it Real
Cultural critics and highbrow couch surfers routinely deride reality (or unscripted) television. Reality TV is, the argument goes, shallow trash--a guilty pleasure at best. When it comes to the club of artistic, canonical works, reality TV doesn't make it past the erudite bouncers at the door. But a canon was a set of ecclesiastical laws, or a secular set of codes and rules. If one is to think of a format as an emerging Global Canon, one in which the meaning is generated through multiple levels of exchange and adaptation, it would be then unfair and shortsighted to write off reality television as a vast cultural wasteland. Here, Hoyt explores how reality shows present a window into the complexities and contradictions of globalization.
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