Cinematic schooling : popular learning at the movies / by James Combs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Combs, James E., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures.

Genre:

Libros electrónicos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 175 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, [2018]

Summary:

This volume uses the metaphor of schooling to highlight the conviction that the widespread attention given to moving pictures in their various venues is not only diverting and entertaining, but also educative, although subtle and suggestive rather than explicit and didactic. The importance of our movie experience includes the inescapable fact of play-learning, which, for many people, becomes accumulative over time and consequential in our imagination of the world, as well as providing guidelines and cues for possible lines of action and codes of socially relevant beliefs. Most movies are not propaganda, but what is communicated onscreen can be incorporated into our ways of thinking and acting. Although this process is difficult to ascertain certainly, nevertheless, for those interested in the overwhelming impact of moving pictures as a component and source of our thinking and action, it deserves serious inquiry and invites social concern as to its power as an experience from which we learn who are and what we do.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Chapter One

Of the Expansion of the Visual Arts

Inhabiting the Moving Picture Heterocosm

The Vital Center

Chapter Two

The Process of Reciprocal Extension

The Functions of the Cinematic Heterocosm

Movies as Nonsense

Chapter Three

The Range of Musements

Dystopian Movies

Cinematic Dramatizations of Social Choices

Chapter Four

Moving Pictures as Prescience

Cinematic Learning: How to L

Conclusion

The Pragmatics of Cinematic Composition

Bibliographic Notes.

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ISBN:

1-5275-2333-0

OCLC:

1149131968