“Thank you Jesus for the Eternal Present” Owen Land / George Landow religion, advertising and art!
Rob > On 16 May 2019, at 07:50, Shuhita Bhattacharjee <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> 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 > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > <https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks> > > > -- > Shuhita Bhattacharjee, PhD (University of Iowa), > Assistant Professor, > Department of English, > Presidency University, > Kolkata, India. > > Email: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
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