New Publication: Doing Digital Film History: Concepts, Tools, Practices

WFPP is featured heavily in  the new open-access publication Doing Digital Film History: Concepts, Tools, Practices, edited by Sarah-Mai Dang, Tim van der Heijden and Christian Gosvig Olesen:

Jane M. Gaines (WFPP founder), “The DH Dilemma: Knowing More & Knowing for Sure vs. Never Knowing At All.”

Sarah-Mai Dang (WFPP project partner), “Managing the Past: Research Data and Film History.”

Kate Saccone (WFPP project manager), “(Re)Visioning Women’s Film History: The Women Film Pioneers Project and Digital Curatorial-Editorial Labor.”

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In his Epilogue, Eric Hoyt writes:

“The WFPP features prominently in the book, and for good reason. It is an exemplary model for“doing digital film history,”and doing it in a way that attends to narrative, agency, big data opportunities, and thoughtful self-reflection. The WFPP includes engagements and references to primary sources. It allows for vast movements between modes and scales of present-ing history, from the biographical information and narratives of individual women film workers, up to more abstract forms of presenting and analyzing information, such as the dendrogram graph of occupation classifications created for the WomenFilm Pioneers Explorer (WFPE), a digital data visualization project based on the data of the WFPP.”