>> However, we can say
we study film, or that we are film scholars, if we decide that we only can or
want to teach/study certain types of film and can’t or won’t
teach/study certain other types of film. If we did, we wouldn’t be film
scholars but we would be
‘certain-types-of-film-and-not-certain-other-types-film scholars’.
So it’s the universal or axiomatic use of the idea of film studies that
is a problem if it chooses some films over another.
would that mean that the
literature departments at the great universities have to include comic books,
say, or assembly line pornography in their curriculum??
does a student of literature,
then, have to be a student of everything that counts -- or may count –
as literature? . . . or is it just in cinema that the very presence of a moving
image makes it part of the territory that the student must explore? . . . and
even there would she have to study TV commercials, especially if they have actually
been recorded on 35mm film so that they satisfy all the “material”
requirements?
just asking
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