Dwight Goes to Film School (sorta)
And now an attempt at defining this blog’s purpose:
Initially, I imagine this blog to be a record of my attempt to teach myself Film Studies. It will be a notepad, journal, and blue book where I record my personal journey into and through the study of film.
In a way, I’ve been teaching myself for quite some time as I watch, analyze, and discuss movies. But a part of me is so enamored with the art of film that it wants more. And I can only grow as a student of film with the knowledge that can only come from others. Certainly, I’d love to attend classes at a university, but I can’t justify the cost of tuition. Still, I want to approach this in a somewhat systematic way. I want to open my eyes to new films and new approaches. I want to approach it in the way that, say, Berkeley does…
teaching students to think historically, theoretically and analytically about a wide range of cinematic forms. At the same time, it encourages students to look at moving-images from the vantage point of other disciplines
or Yale:
interdisciplinary program that focuses on the history, theory, and criticism of cinema and other moving image media
…by studying the history, theory, and analysis of film via an interdisciplinary approach. I’d like to take a look at the curriculum that some of these schools offer for their film programs. Perhaps, even steal from some of their syllabi. Read some of those textbooks and articles. And I plan on reading whatever I can find on the internet, find at the library, or afford to purchase for myself. I’ve already found a handful of websites, blogs, and podcasts that will undoubtedly teach me so much. And, of course, I will watch, absorb, and digest as much film as possible.
Certainly, it will be my own brand of film school filtered through my own unique eyes.
