CINEMA and MEMORY in St. Petersburg
About
Using computational tools, this Project examines oral history interviews, in which interviewees reconstruct their moviegoing experiences in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Specifically, the Project analyzes
- what moviegoers remember (films, actors, directors),
- how they evaluate films, actors, characters,
- how they define themsleves as narrators (I or we), and
- what they hesitate about when they recollect their moviegoing experiences.
- how their cinematic experiences shape their identities as Soviets, Russians, and global citizens?
Project Scope
For this pilot project we use nine oral history interviews.
The Future of the Project
We plan to expand the corpus of interviews. Also we will use more statistical and social networking tools.
