MOVIES AND METHODS Dina 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.