Audiovisual media, such as film, TV, webseries, YouTube-videos and so on, have long become one, if not the, dominant cultural communication form of our times (Mirzoeff, 1999; Mitchell, 2001). Their role in shaping sociocultural configurations of all kinds appears incontestable. However, description and analysis of such media presents immense challenges which have so far resisted scalable solutions. Although it is becoming increasingly possible to conduct larger-scale stylistic and formal feature analysis (shot lengths, brightness, color profiles, dynamicity, etc.: cf., e.g., Heftberger, 2018), productive engagement with such media as powerful sociocultural artifacts demands in addition hermeneutic and functional interpretations as pursued in many branches of the humanities. Analyses of these kinds have not so far been possible within the digital humanities.