MOVIES AND METHODSDina Iordanova

1 September 2015

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’

Text and Context

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

Global Airlines

• Transnational approach: what we can see when we go outside the forest?

• Global cinema lives on Emirates air liners.

• Airline: as big as a a country.

• Bienvenue chez les Chti’s.

• Method: participant observation.