What is necessary, surely, is to devote as much time as possible to teaching
Other Cinemas - Latin American, Russian, African, Japanese, Chinese,
Iranian, Indian, etc. etc. as well alternative forms of cinema in Europe and
North America. It will simply not be possible to construct any other type of
relationship to cinema as long as students are not properly introduced to
the full wealth and breadth of world cinemas, and are taught that the
history of cinema is not reducible to Hollywood, and then the rest. The
question is, where do you start? If truth be told, I have been constantly
struck by how narrow a range of cinema is ever discussed on this list.
Michael Chanan
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> Subject: Re: pacifist monks
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>
> Date sent: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 09:13:05 -0400
> Subject: Re: pacifist monks
> From: John Daigle <[log in to unmask]>
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> > 'We are like a warrior caste that sends its children away to be
> > >raised by pacifist monks,' says Norman Podhoretz, the critic
> and editor".
> > >
> > Not that that's unusual, or historically speaking, much of a change.
> > Monastic and Parochial schools have a long history in many Western and
> > Eastern cultures.
> >
> > j.daigle
>
> What interests me more than the history of education is the fact
> that dominant popular values seem so at odds with the perceived
> values of high culture (as exemplified by the University and, I would
> imagine, those artefacts that some choose to call "art"). I feel that
> the increasing corporate nature of the University system militates
> more and more against philosophical research in favour of using the
> insights of cultural criticism to sell more product - whether it be
> university-level education or a particular film. In other words, the
> smug, and by now almost invisible, triumph of capital is militating
> against teaching (or film) that is critical of the very institutions that
> allow it to exist.
>
> Perhaps the question is: what would a useful course in "Film
> Studies" look like? I think that the problem here is in the definition
> of the word "useful".
>
> David Sorfa
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