The arrogance of an "expert" with his special knowledge of "mythemic structures and taxonomy" and his formidable postmodern insight into the "ideological functions of spectatorship." A course for "bondurango": Remedial Reading of RU-vid Video Titles," Lesson One being the title of this course, which so far as I can tell is NOT "History of Film." As a RU-vid dilettante, not a student, I may not always agree with Professor Singer but I am sure that most of his students find him insightful.
+Daniel Lackey: troll. baited. bravo! you led +bondurango directly into demonstrating the Sophist's mastery of the Art of Seeming Right, which is nothing more than a mere synonym to the Actress. naturally, +bondurango's unwittingly committed the most brutally shameful of rookie mistakes: resort to argumentum ad hominem. Of course, if +bondurango were a philosophy student instead, +bondurango would know better. ;) alas, +bondurango is but an actor, reciting from a poorly written script. #currentlyrecastingfortheroleofGrammarInstructorbondurangoflopped #firethewritersfortheroleofGrammarInstructor
A better question is who? Bill Nichols is Professor of Cinema and Director of the Graduate Film Program at San Francisco State University. Check out his bio on Wikipedia. Also, Peter Wollen is Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles. He's the co-writer of Antonioni's "The Passenger" & directed "Black September" starring Tilda Swinton. Their books should be required reading for any film student. Read Eisenstein's "The Film Sense" something Bazin never did.
What a rambling pile of self serving crap. As a former film student, I suggest you don't waste your time with this kind of ahistoric drivel. A good course in the history of film should cover the development of cinematic language. Take a course in film genre to learn more about the mythemic structures & taxonomy of film. A good course in film theory & production should cover the political, psychological & ideological functions of spectatorship. This is what you "need" to know about film.
+bondurango forgot to include a course covering philosophy in media (such as film). of course, that's because +bondurango thinks this is a course for film students. +bondurango presumes MIT even offers a degree program for film students. MIT does not, nor did they at the time this actual course was taking place, offer any degrees for film students. no enrolled, paying student on campus sitting in that room on the other side of that camera pointed at dr. singer, is a film student. they are primarily philosophy students, as this course is only in the curriculum for philosophy students, and comparative media studies students (a research program). +bondurango does not recognize that "MIT 24.209 Philosophy In Film and Other Media" is a standard format academic title. "Philosophy" was his first clue. It's ok he missed it. we expect him to overlook it... it's not like he's a philosophy student. he is only a film student.
How would a student know the difference? Obviously, he'd be insightful to somebody with no film education. But a student of film should never be a dilettante & they certainly should never be presumptuous about whether other people find Professor Singer insightful. Unlike you, I certainly wasn't being presumptuous about this being a history course but taking one per my recomendation would render Singer's course an elective, at best, if it isn't already one.
+Chris Donahue, this is a real, live classroom, with students in it, at MIT, who have paid for the course and will receive academic credit towards their degrees. This is syllabus day. College students know what a syllabus is, and that it is always available online, and almost always made available at least a week before the first day of class. Which tells students when it's appropriate to do you one better than doubling the speed, and just skip syllabus day altogether. As an online free consumer of this course, if you are genuinely interested in the course subject matter --philosophy --you probably won't miss much if you proceed to the next video, which would be the next time these people met in this classroom for this course. If you don't know what a syllabus is, you are undoubtedly in the wrong building. MIT uploads videos of actual lectures to make them accessible to the public --in this case: to make them available to philosophical scholars who perhaps cannot afford to pay for actually enrolling in the course, or who are the purest of scholars in that they are free from the extrinsic motivation of earning academic credit and interested in these lectures for the benefit of learning itself.
To "bondurango": A noun phrase is not a sentence. True. Too true for comment. Since you have a tin ear for irony, let me offer a permutation of the prior instruction. You call my grammar shameful for my writing in noun phrases. So I reply, pugnaciously, with another noun phrase glossing my original criticism of your boorish incivility the essense of which I shall once again characterize as the arrogance of an "expert . . . who burdens us with glib and gruesome jargon." Study. Test on Monday.
A long noun phrase meant to identify a certain annoying species of arrogance. What kind of arrogance? That of an "expert." What kind of "expert"? One who burdens us with glib and gruesome jargon. A long noun phrase with a modifying sequence of five prepositional phrases. Nothing in that so shameful as your boorish incivility.
