Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Date of Degree
2-2024
Document Type
Capstone Project
Degree Name
M.S.
Program
Data Analysis & Visualization
Advisor
Ellie Frymire
Subject Categories
Digital Humanities | Other Film and Media Studies
Keywords
interactive, database, film analysis, Sight and Sound
Abstract
Once every ten years, Sight and Sound, a film magazine produced by the British Film Institute (BFI), conducts an international poll of critics and film journalists to determine the “Greatest Films of All Time.” The first poll was conducted in 1952, and ten years later the BFI decided to make their poll decennial, allowing for the list to change and thus to demonstrate how time, changing opinion, and the continuous creation of new films change the film canon. However, despite the opportunity for long-term analysis, there is not an easy way online to see how a film’s ranking has changed between polls outside of opening lists in multiple tabs. To combat this, the goal of this project is to increase the accessibility of data pertaining to all iterations of the Sight and Sound Greatest Films of All Time Poll by creating a centralized database. This project includes the transcription of every ten-film ballot published by Sight and Sound for all 8 iterations of the poll, as well as the calculated number of votes and rank for each film, organized into a workbook. This project also includes an interactive website that displays each film’s biographical information and ranking in every poll and allows for filtering and sorting. Together, these deliverables allow for a previously unprecedented ability to analyze changes over time to the Sight and Sound poll and thus the film canon.
Recommended Citation
Donia, Katie, "The Complete Sight and Sound Greatest Films of All Time Database" (2024). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/5904
Export of GitHub repo at time of deposit
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