Petal Diagrams: A New Technique for Mapping Historical Change in the Film Industry
Publication: International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing
Volume 9, Issue 2
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As the study of cinema has increasingly turned to the examination of economic ebbs and industrial flows, rather than focussing its attention solely on the critical evaluation of the films themselves, new analytic techniques and tools have been adopted (and adapted) by film scholars. Key amongst these is the use of innovative visualization techniques that can assist in the understanding of the spatial and temporal features of film industry practices. However, like the cinema itself, visualization carries its own spatial and temporal dimension. This article explores some of the benefits and limitations that derive from the use of spatial visualization technologies in the field of cinema studies. In particular, this research presents a new holistic multivariate approach to spatio-temporal visualization for point based historical data. This method has been developed through extending the spatial presence in timeline graphics and through meaningful spatial classification and representation.
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International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing
Volume 9 • Issue 2 • October, 2015
Pages: 142 - 163
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© Edinburgh University Press 2015.
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Published in print: October, 2015
Published online: 16 October 2015
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