STÁŤ NA OKRAJI SA NEOPLÁCA: ANALÝZA SOCIÁLNEJ SIETE SLOVENSKÉHO FILMU Z ROKOV 2012 – 2019
NOT SUITABLE FOR OUTSIDERS: SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS OF SLOVAK CINEMA FROM 2012 TO 2019

Summary/Abstract: In recent years, authorship in Slovak cinema has formed the subject of several qualitative studies. In art films, these identified authorship in the person of the sole director and, in commercial films, they attributed it to the whole crew. This study aims to examine these findings from the quantitative perspective of digital humanities, especially social network analysis (SNA). By SNA, this study examined the link between the centrality of (a) entire crews and (b) individual directors and the number of film spectators, reviews by professionals and the lay public, budgets, and the amount of funding received from the Slovak Audiovisual Fund (AVF) in both art films and commercial films. Linear correlations revealed a weak-to-strong link between the centrality of crews and individuals and all the monitored indicators, except for one case: the AVF funding of commercial films was not connected to the centrality of their creators. In all cases, however, the centrality of an individual was a stronger predictor than the centrality of the crew, implying that the central position of individual directors plays an important role in reception, budgeting, film attendance and, in the case of art films, also in public funding.

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