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Dealing with film data: Books, Book Chapters, Articles, Dialogs, Polemics, Conference Papers
Taking shot lengths: Why and How
David Bordwell: Precise Tools in Film StudiesBarry Salt: Statistical Film AnalysisYuri Tsivian: Taking Cinemetrics into the Digital Age (2005 - now)
Cinemetrics of Film Style: Case Studies
Charles O’Brien: Shot Length Statistics: National Differences across Multiple Language Version Films (1930-1933)Warren Buckland: Quantitative Analysis in Literature and CinemaMatt Hauske: Ozu, Sound, and Style: A Cinemetrical Analysis of Four FilmsBarry Salt: How They Cut Dialogue ScenesFilippo Schillaci: The evolution of form in Andrei Tarkovsky's filmsYuri Tsivian: Beyond Comparing: The Internal Dynamics of Intolerance
Uses of Cinemetrics: Capabilities, Limitations, Potentials
Yuri Tsivian: Cinemetrics in One Year: The 2006 SummaryBarry Salt: The Metrics in CinemetricsBarry Salt: Requiring Split-Second TimingBarry Salt: Speeding Up And Slowing DownKeith Brisson: Side by Side: Data Analysis Across FilmsDavid Wark Griffith: Pace in the Movies: A Famous Director Reveals the Secret of Good Pictures
Shot Lengths and Psychology: Has Attention to Do with It?
Barry Salt: Comments on Attention and Hollywood FilmsJames Cutting: In Reply to Barry Salt on Attention and the Evolution Hollywood FilmsBarry Salt: Some More Thoughts on the Cutting ArticleJames Cutting: On Salt IIMike Baxter: Evolution in Hollywood editing patterns?Barry Salt: Salt on Baxter on CuttingJames E. Cutting: More on the Evolution of Popular Film EditingMike Baxter: Further comments on evolution in Hollywood film: the role of models
Films and Statistics: Give and Take
Mike Baxter, Nick Redfern, Barry Salt, Yuri Tsivian: Three Hard Questions, Back and Forth
QUESTION 1: MEDIAN OR MEAN
Question 1: Median or MeanNick Redfern: The average shot length as a statistic of film styleMike Baxter: Film Statistics: Some ObservationsBarry Salt: Graphs and NumbersMike Baxter: Film Statistics: Further Observations
QUESTION 2: WHAT DO LINES TELL
Question 2: What Do Lines Tell?Mike Baxter: Lines, damned lines and statisticsNick Redfern: An introduction to using graphical displays for analysing the editing of motion picturesBarry Salt: Films and Graphs
QUESTION 3: LOOKING FOR LOOKALIKES
Question 3: Looking for LookalikesMike Baxter: Comparing cutting patterns – a working paperBarry Salt: Getting a ResultNick Redfern: Time series clustering and the analysis of film styleYuri Tsivian: Notes on the Margins of Salt's and Baxter's StudiesMike Baxter: Cutting patterns in D.W. Griffith’s Biographs: An experimental statistical study
Monographs
Mike Baxter: Notes on Cinemetric Data Analysis
Bibliography
Cinemetrics – a bibliography