Lec 1 | MIT 24.209 Philosophy In Film and Other Media

[XQZEK]

The drop was so non-existent, my cat did not begin to bark

[GetMeThere1]

I'd like to meet the person who could stay awake through this entire lecture!

I only at minute 33 and I'm having a hard time resisting the impulse to chew my foot off...

[1888junkteam]

excellent work!

[ncy125]

Anyway nice work !

[bondurango]

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.

[DanLackey]

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 Youtube Video Titles," Lesson One being the title of this course, which so far as I can tell is NOT "History of Film." As a Youtube dilettante, not a student, I may not always agree with Professor Singer but I am sure that most of his students find him insightful.

[bondurango]

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.

[bondurango]

Also, with shameful grammar & syntax like yours, you will never go beyond being anything but a dilettante unless & until you learn how to write a complete sentence.

[DanLackey]

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.

[bondurango]

When it comes to grammar, Lackey, you are definitely lacking since a noun phrase is not a complete sentence. There's nothing more amusing than a fool who tries to make excuses for his ignorance by loading a gun with bullets in order to show everybody how good he is at shooting himself in the foot.

[DanLackey]

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.

[willberb]

"boorish incivility" were you talking about me?

I resemble that remark, but how could you have known that? Spooky times indeed.

[DanLackey]

I was responding to bondurango . . .

[Thetruthinall]

This comment is a testament to how ignorant ANYONE can be.

People like you are so blind with your buttons and pins pitted on you to inflate your over blown ego and how to be attitude, get lost buddy because i will be your gavel and enjoy watching you squirm.

What a joke... go ahead and remove this comment if anyone finds it offensive but frankly this mans words are much more hateful then anything i just wrote.

Thank god my generation will out grow your ways, thank you for being an example.

[blazerrips91]

oh calm down

[denisewyllie]

'A good course in film theory & production should cover the political, psychological & ideological functions of spectatorship.'

where

[bondurango]

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.

[PerennialLucidity]

1st comment!

[themachinegunn]

are you retarded?

[PerennialLucidity]

ha! you misspelt retarted! your the retart not me.

[themachinegunn]

congratulations on the most ironic comment ive ever seen.

[justana2]

Where is the comment? Someone took this away.

maybe the author. So take away the profile too.

[mrpainintheheinie]

mit rocks.

you ppl are doing a great service to humanity.

[schzx]

So this is really Lecture #1? Confusing title should be fixed.

[brightscience]

mit open course ware is totally awesome!

[xxoipolloixx]

Anyone else think this course seems cool... I'm thinking of "taking it" learning it lecture by lecture..anyone else thinking of doing it too.. It would be really cool to meet someone that wanted to/was doing the same thing so we could discuss the class with/ encourage eachother interact with EM me if you want to!!!!!!!!!!!! the whole course is posted on the MIT website ----Mady

[jb345bobo]

Seriously, how many books do they have to read !?!

[amyscorvette]

wow!

Learnt nothing. Boring pop rubbish.

[cplusruss]

I respect this class, but the prof is annoyingly intimidating.

[goWrite]

Does he ever actually say anything?

[Slimdawgc]

It's a first class. I'm sure he doesn't want to scare people off.

[PerennialLucidity]

FIRST