Taylor Arnold

Every Shot, Zero-Shot: The Decoupling of Framing and Duration in Sound-Era Hollywood and Prestige Film

Taylor Arnold, Lauren Tilton

We study the visual pacing of 1,236 feature films from three overlapping film corpora: the Academy Award Best Picture nominees (1927–2009), the corresponding ten highest-grossing films in the United States in the same time period (1927–2009), and the British Film Institute's Greatest …

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Closed Corpora, Open Questions: Rethinking Statistical Evidence in Computational Humanities

Taylor Arnold

Computational humanities research has begun to inherit the evidentiary standards of the empirical sciences. For an important class of such work, I argue, this expectation is misplaced. Null-hypothesis significance testing (NHST), a cornerstone of quantitative research, supports inference from a sample to …

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Every Shot, Zero-Shot: The Decoupling of Framing and Duration in Sound-Era Hollywood and Prestige Film

Taylor Arnold, Lauren Tilton

We study the visual pacing of 1,236 feature films from three overlapping film corpora: the Academy Award Best Picture nominees (1927–2009), the corresponding ten highest-grossing films in the United States in the same time period (1927–2009), and the British Film Institute's Greatest …

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The Shortcom Is Not a Short Sitcom: Visual and Aural Pacing in French Television Comedy

Taylor Arnold

Shortcoms are short-form comedic television series built from episodes of only a few minutes in length, a format that has been uniquely popular in France since the late 1990s. Existing scholarship in media and television studies is split between views that shortcoms …

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Closed Corpora, Open Questions: Rethinking Statistical Evidence in Computational Humanities

Taylor Arnold

Computational humanities research has begun to inherit the evidentiary standards of the empirical sciences. For an important class of such work, I argue, this expectation is misplaced. Null-hypothesis significance testing (NHST), a cornerstone of quantitative research, supports inference from a sample to …

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The Shortcom Is Not a Short Sitcom: Visual and Aural Pacing in French Television Comedy

Taylor Arnold

Shortcoms are short-form comedic television series built from episodes of only a few minutes in length, a format that has been uniquely popular in France since the late 1990s. Existing scholarship in media and television studies is split between views that shortcoms …

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Sitcom Form and Function: Pacing and Production in a Collection of Thirty U.S. Series

Taylor Arnold, Lauren Tilton

Using an original corpus of thirty U.S. situational comedies (sitcoms) spanning over 4,500 episodes, we investigate how visual and aural pacing evolve over time and across modes of production. We find a clear trend toward faster pacing in visual editing, spoken dialogue, …

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CHR2025: Introduction

Taylor Arnold, Margherita Fantoli, Ruben Ros

Introducing the Anthology for Computers and the Humanities

Taylor Arnold, Maria Antoniak, Miguel Escobar Varela, Marie Puren et autres

Abstract We present the Anthology of Computers and the Humanities, a new publication designed to host open-access, peer-reviewed proceedings from digital humanities (broadly defined) conferences and workshops. The Anthology provides a home for conference proceedings, offering essential structures such as DOIs and …

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Distant viewing archives

Taylor Arnold, Lauren Tilton

Distant Viewing the Amateur Film Platform

Tim van der Heijden, Taylor Arnold, Lauren Tilton

Distant Viewing the Amateur Film Platform See https://www.amateurfilmplatform

Automated Image Color Mapping for a Historic Photographic Collection

Taylor Arnold, Lauren Tilton

In the 1970s, the United States Environmental Protection Agency sponsored Documerica, a large-scale photography initiative to document environmental subjects nation-wide. While over 15,000 digitized public-domain photographs from the collection are available online, most of the images were scanned from damaged copies of …