Programme
For abstracts of the papers, please click on the respective name in the programme or in the menu on the left.
Since the conference will be held in English, there are no German versions of the programme and the abstracts.
Monday, 18 June
09:30-10:00 Words of Welcome
10:00-11:00 Theoretical Framework
11:15-13:00 Database Design and Linkage
Databases for Early Cinema Research
Culture in Context
14:30-16:00 Guest Scholar of the Siegen Research Centre
Jay David Bolter (Atlanta, Georgia):
Digital Technology and the Crisis of Aura in Contemporary Cinema
16:15-18:00 Measuring Success
Popularity and Early Cinema
Clara Pafort-Overduin (Utrecht) & Jaap Boter (Amsterdam):
The Influence of Compartmentalization in a Society on Film Distribution and Success
18:00-19:00 Dealing with Geographical Data (part 1)
Mapping the Movies
Tuesday, 19 June
09:15-10:15 Dealing with Geographical Data (part 2)
Jens Wagner, Roger Sennert, Michael Ross (Siegen):
Putting Itinerant Cinemas on the Map
10:30-13:00 Film Analysis: Case Studies
Warren Buckland (London): *** Cancelled ***
Who Directed Poltergeist (1982)?
Vera Kropf & Matthias Zeppelzauer (Vienna):
Peter Ludes (Bremen) & Leonardo Boccia (Salvador, Brazil):
Key Measures and Key Visuals in Brazilian and German TV Annual Reviews
14:30-17:00 Film Analysis Software
Yuri Tsivian (Chicago, Illinois):
CineMetrics
Videana: A Software Tool for Scientific Film Analysis
Otthein Herzog et al (Bremen):
Automatic Movie Trailer Generation based on Semantic Video Patterns
17:15-19:00 Annotating Film
Text-based Film Retrieval 2006
How to describe systems of filmic effects