Re: Multiple Responses: cinema program recommendations

From: Henry M. Taylor [[email protected]]

Steve, I'm afraid the following quotes really give you away:

> I've always worked in practice-heavy programs, and have
> never had a problem with production colleagues, or with a curriculum that
> failed to value the contributions of history/theory/crit types

> As pioneers from
> Eisentstein to Godard showed us, [one already shudders, not such a wide range as it's supposed to sound like]

> In a healthy university curriculum, students
> are required to take both production and history/theory/crit classes [health issues? holism? exchange value rather than use value?]

> Segregating these curricular emphases tends to lead to film studies
> academics making howling errors when they attempt to discuss the production
> process, and to filmmakers re-inventing the wheel in endlessly tedious ways [filmmakers with few exceptions that prove the rule are almost by definition inarticulate and don't really understand the meaning of their work]


While there is theory in praxis, and praxis in theory, they don't add up neatly. YOU HAVE TO MAKE A CHOICE OF WHAT YOU REALLY WANT TO BE

Henry