Abstract

The aim of this study is to propose a conceptual framework for the analysis of historical programming in digital media. Radical breakthroughs in the technologies for registration and dissemination of moving images have created a need for common vocabularies that can be shared by media practitioners, researchers from different fields of inquiry, and end-users of documentary accounts. The elements of the proposed framework are derived from the fields of architecture, genre theory, and computer software design. It adheres to the pattern language approach proposed by Christopher Alexander, a methodology for cooperative design that has been successfully applied in the design of computer software. The study suggests that this method for identifying design elements resonate well with recent contributions to genre theory made by film-scholar Rick Altman and by computer-scientist Thomas Erickson.

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Academic thesis for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Stockholm University, publicly defended in the lecture hall, Film House, 5 Castle Road, Stockholm, Tuesday 18 December 2001, at. 10:15

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