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Title: Once More, With Feeling: Measuring Emotion of Acting Performances in Contemporary American Film
Narrative film is a composition of writing, cinematography, editing, and performance. While much computational work has focused on the writing or visual style in film, we conduct in this paper a com- putational exploration of acting performance. Applying speech emotion recognition models and a vari- ationist sociolinguistic analytical framework to a corpus of popular, contemporary American film, we find narrative structure, diachronic shifts, and genre- and dialogue-based constraints located in spoken performances.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1942591
PAR ID:
10648742
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Publisher / Repository:
Fifth Conference on Computational Humanities Research
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Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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