Once More, With Feeling: Measuring Emotion of Acting Performances in Contemporary American Film

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2411.10018v1
• Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2024 07:53:02 GMT
• Title: Once More, With Feeling: Measuring Emotion of Acting Performances in Contemporary American Film
• Authors: Naitian Zhou, David Bamman,
• Abstract summary: We apply speech emotion recognition models to a corpus of popular, contemporary American film. We find narrative structure, diachronic shifts, and genre- and dialogue-based constraints located in spoken performances.
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• Abstract: 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 computational exploration of acting performance. Applying speech emotion recognition models and a variationist 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.

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