This chapter delves into the application of network analysis within the R ecosystem, utilizing the “tidygraph” package to analyze the Early Race Film Database. By leveraging the tidy principles and integrating them with network-specific analysis, it uncovers the intricate web of interactions among films, actors, directors, and production companies. The chapter demonstrates how to import and wrangle network data, calculate centrality measures, visualize connections, and detect communities, revealing the latent structures of cultural networks. It overviews visualization techniques, facilitated by the “ggraph” package, and how they translate complex relational data into insightful diagrams.