![]() ![]() I consider myself well read, but there has been no plan. ![]() Roger Ebert thinks about what we read: That's how I've done my reading: Haphazardly, by inclination. But where are your students going to find a hundred hours in a 14-week semester in which they have three other courses? Imagine teaching Buffy in a course on the coming-of-age story in the 20th century: it’s essential reading, it would fit nicely with Portrait and Mockingbird, Catcher and Portnoy, Nick Adams and Prep. Movies don’t take very long to watch, but they need to be thought about just covering the essentials is bound to be tough.Īnd now we have serious serial forms, like Buffy and Babylon 5. That’s three or four years of watching a Great Movie Of The Week. Just to cover the essentials, the very greatest movies, is a lot of work: Ebert has three volumes of Great Movies so far, and more are coming. But there’s a lot of reading you need to do. If you’d like to be well-read in film, Netflix and Amazon have wonderful libraries. ![]() If you need to review a scene from Potemkin, you can probably stream it or order a DVD.Īt the Presidency University conference, Sue Thomas spoke of new media literacies. The video generation, and even more the Netflix generation, inhabit a completely different world. True enthusiasts would even buy films Peter van de Kamp, a Swarthmore astronomer when I was an undergraduate, has a precious private collection of Chaplin. And a serious film viewer – even a professional critic – needed to watch for opportunities: you’d think to yourself that “I really want to look at Battleship Potemkin in light of this new idea,” and then you’d need to look out for an opportunity. But this wasn’t something you would, or could, do casually you had to work at it all the time. The Paulettes – Roger Ebert, say – inhabited a world where a really devoted critic could still see just about everything there was to see. You’d see one or two double=features every week, and everyone who liked movies saw and talked about the same ones that week. Linda sends a good illustration of the wealth of books: in our own time, we’ve experienced exactly this transition in film.įor the young Pauline Kael’s generation, an avid filmgoer’s world was whatever was showing in town. ![]()
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