cinema program recommendations

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From: smfore [[email protected]]

Janet makes exactly the right point: "I think if faculty (both production
and studies) lead students in the view that both "sides" of the field are
valuable, they are more willing to be interested in studies."  And this is
true also for the minority of students who are more inclined towards film
studies, and who are at times a little phobic about the technological and
logistical demands of production.

In my program (in which film production/studies is one part of a broader
media mix including everything except studio/location TV), the undergrad
film stream leader is quite vocal about the importance of
history/theory/crit in relation to production, and this is reflected in
program requirements.  His professional background is exclusively in
production.  In other areas of the curriculum, faculty are both theorists
and practitioners ("Look, kids, it's fun!"), and often use practice-based
theory in teaching.  The Bauhaus roolz.

-- 
Ken Nolley
Professor of English and Film Studies
Willamette University
Salem, OR 97301
Phone:  503-370-6280
Fax:  503-370-6944