Dear Bernie, Many, many thanks for these suggestions. They are incredibly useful. I am working on a monograph on *Postsecular Theory* and I have a chapter that studies the modern-day classroom and its interface with faith and spirituality. In that context, I am looking at cinema of all kinds and television that recreates a situation such as this. Thanks once again for the very interesting leads.
Best, Shuhita. On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 10:51 PM Bernard Roddy <roddy...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, Shuhita: > > Although it is not clear what kind of monograph this would be, we can > imagine it as an open question about "spirituality" in artists' practice. > Two associations come to mind: A practice like Phil Solomon's is, I think, > intensely spiritual . . to the point that one might become impatient with > it. Anything that is listening to chemistry or light, being buried and > watched at length strikes me as outside the academic agenda of technical > and pragmatic preparation for contributing to the competition. But before > this kind of durational and quasi-observational meditation on time came to > mind, it occurred to me that the personal film - by which I mean the video > diary but of a certain kind, by a certain sort of person - would initiate a > discussion into what it means to be an academic and yet to refuse a > functionalist or utilitarian outlook. What about Birgit Hein's film on > Cuba? It's not as if you will find an expressly religious testament to an > experience that cannot be codified or marketed, but the practice is itself > a manifestation of an outlook open to "the other," insisting on remaining > without a guide, without a roadmap, and thus at risk of what our pedagogue > will warn us against, precisely that. > > Bernie > > - - - - > > Dear Frameworkers, > > I want to draw on your collective wisdom for my monograph. I am looking for > examples across world cinema and television that represent the academic > space, in particular the university classroom/campus in its overlap with > spirituality/religion. Most useful would be a scene with classroom > discussions on spirituality or faith, but really anything in this zone > would work great. Any suggestions at all would be wonderful! > > Many thanks in advance. > > Sincerely, > Shuhita. > > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > -- *Shuhita Bhattacharjee, PhD (University of Iowa),* Assistant Professor, Department of English, Presidency University, Kolkata, India. Email: shuh...@gmail.com shuhi...@gmail.com shuhita....@presiuniv.ac.in
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