Table 1 Established research streams as relevant to the large-scale study of historical newsreels, including contributions and gaps.
Research stream | Contributions | Gaps |
|---|---|---|
Qualitative film history | Multimodality; Historical context; Sensitive to intersubjective meaning-making | Limited scale; Hard to compare |
Computational video analysis | Large scale; Systematic; Comparable | Limited multimodality; Limited debates on meaning; Limited historical context |
Computational film studies | Debates on meaning; Focus on film content | Limited focus regarding film context; Limited discussion of the connection between meaning-making units and variables |
New Cinema History | Focus on context | Limited focus on film content |
