Film does seem to be the most suitable art form for universities to study.
It suits the students -- because most movies have been made for kids
(and universities must service their customer base - with recreational
facilities as well as classes about movies)
And it suits the professional intellectual -- it being so convenient to assume
that movies have "had enormous influence on how people think and act, how they
imagine themselves and how they imagine others and the whole culture
besides."
A perfect whipping boy for big, bad capitalist society.
But as that Wikipedia essay noted -- the canon of "Great film" is still
nowhere near being consensual. Even "Citizen Kane" can be excluded.
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"In cultural Studies or in Visual Culture theory, film
is the number one object of study. Vast reams of
language are published on the topic. Universities
have large departments and graduate programs devoted
to film theory and the like. It's far more closely
examined today than any other art form. It seems
every art student goes through a video stage (which
may be (funnily) analogous to Lacan's Mirror Stage.
It's the perfect medium for thoroughly blending high
and low, the perfect medium for replicating the
commonplace. The movies had had enormous influence on
how people think and act, how they imagine themselves
and how they imagine others and the whole culture
besides. Movies have created reality and then
replicate it over and over."
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