movies and methods dina iordanova 1 september 2015
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Disipline of mind?
• Study of philosophy: • Metaphysics, ontology,
epistemology, logic vs. History of Philosophy
• Almost anything can be argued successfully…
• Healthy scepticism and uncertainty
• Knowledge is contextual
• Philosophy of Science• Thomas Kuhn
What can be spoken about? Who can speak?
• Hypothesis and data relate differently.
• Different motivation for intellectual inquiry: Utterings on the state of the world as it is represented subjectively.
• No definitive body of knowledge and no urge for ‘truth’ or categorical results.
• Accumulate a body of knowledge, and then articulate in a way that helps other people see what I see
• Language and jargon. Writing oneself into the research
• Against cultural colonisation: many voices, many ways of seeing. Interest in periphery
• Study of popular culture; ‘Atlas of emotion’; ‘Economies of prestige’
Studies of Context: How Film Travels?
• Pushing the boundaries.• Correlating to the global
dynamics: Traveling and reading.
• Films made vs.films seen? (Why is it that in a cosmopolitan intellectual town like St Andrews we can only see Hollywood blockbusters?)
• Digital disruption• Diasporic circulation• Film festivals• Cinemas of Paris