讲座名称：经典再现？数码人文与早期电影研究 Testing the Canon: Digital Scholarship and Early Cinema
主讲人：叶月瑜（香港岭南大学林黄耀华视觉研究讲座教授）
主持人：劳维俊（国立阳明交通大学视觉文化研究所副教授）
时间：2024年12月3日（二），晚上7:30-9:30
地点：台北光点艺文厅（台北市中山区中山北路二段18号）
（讲座将以中文进行，欢迎各界人士参与。无须报名，现场备有无酒精饮料供享用）

讲座内容：
A History of Film Exhibition and Reception in Colonial Hong Kong (1897–1925) and Early Chinese Film Database are two digital humanities projects made to share new historical data on early cinema in Hong Kong and China. Information held in these two databases is pivotal to animating local film histories and can be utilized to form a new understanding of the incipient shape of cinema trade. This article seeks to aggregate the receptions of twenty canonical texts in Hong Kong from the late 1890s to mid 1920s by extracting relevant data from these two digital archives. A list of ‘classic’ films from Europe, America and China was compiled to test the canon by looking at their receptions in Hong Kong. My findings show that early films exhibited in Hong Kong did not match, to a large extent, the canonical history of either global or Chinese cinemas. Instead, other factors might affect the local exhibition and reception of foreign and Chinese films. These factors include stars, the track records of directors and studios, exhibitors, and distributors. In closing, the article considers the likely gaps in digital archives and the limitations of digital historiography.