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I just received your e-mail ad for this site. I teach literature, film survey, and mythology classes at Illinois Central College. Your site is a perfect fit for my classes — like the stone age cave drawings, movies are where we make and share our myths. It is reaffirming for me to see you address popular films as the medium to discuss what Campbell calls “the stories worth writing about.”
For too long, academia (at least in my discipline — English and Literature) has attempted to relegate cinema to second rate status. One of my main peeves is listening to professors in my field who constantly raise the question: which is better, the book or the movie? What a futile question. Of course, these same colleagues wrongly assume that the only answer to that question is “the book,” when, in fact, in many cases the film does a better job of adapting the original text to film than the book did in the first place. Enough.
As you can see your website provoked a lot of thought. I’ll definitely be linking your site to my film and mythology class Blackboard.
Sincerely,
Craig L. Shurtleff
Professor, English
Illinois Central College
cshutleff@icc.edu
I just received your e-mail ad for this site. I teach literature, film survey, and mythology classes at Illinois Central College. Your site is a perfect fit for my classes — like the stone age cave drawings, movies are where we make and share our myths. It is reaffirming for me to see you address popular films as the medium to discuss what Campbell calls “the stories worth writing about.”
For too long, academia (at least in my discipline — English and Literature) has attempted to relegate cinema to second rate status. One of my main peeves is listening to professors in my field who constantly raise the question: which is better, the book or the movie? What a futile question. Of course, these same colleagues wrongly assume that the only answer to that question is “the book,” when, in fact, in many cases the film does a better job of adapting the original text to film than the book did in the first place. Enough.
As you can see your website provoked a lot of thought. I’ll definitely be linking your site to my film and mythology class Blackboard.
Sincerely,
Craig L. Shurtleff
Professor, English
Illinois Central College
cshutleff@icc.edu
Anyway to view or read transcripts of these reviews that have been taken down by YouTube?!