Cinema Education as an Exercise in "Thinking through Not-Thinking"

Autor/inn/en	Decoster, Pieter-Jan; Vansieleghem, Nancy
Titel	Cinema Education as an Exercise in "Thinking through Not-Thinking"
Quelle	In: Educational Philosophy and Theory, 46 (2014) 7, S.792-804 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-1857
DOI	10.1080/00131857.2013.795853
Schlagwörter	Films; Teaching Methods; Guidelines; Critical Thinking; Educational Theories; Educational Philosophy + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Film; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Richtlinien; Kritisches Denken; Educational theory; Theory of education; Bildungstheorie; Bildungsphilosophie; Erziehungsphilosophie
Abstract	In this article we explore the educational potential of cinema. To do this we first analyse how the American critical thinker Henry Giroux tries to give body to an educational theory in relation to cinema. His "film pedagogy" is described as developing a critical response of the learner in relation to the public sphere of film. Giroux's approach, however, seems to forget rather than explore the potential that is specific to the medium. Secondly, the article analyses Walter Benjamin's (1936, Illuminations, London, Pimlico) essay "The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction", because here we find not a different educational response to cinema, but one of the first studies on cinema that describes its ontological nature and the potential of moving images for thought. Finally, the article discusses the cinema philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, who, in contrast to Giroux, does not construct a Cartesian framework around cinema. Rather, he recognizes and explores cinema's potential for thoughts like Benjamin did. In this way, Deleuze reverses Giroux's question of how education should respond to cinema. A pedagogical discussion hereby comes to the fore that does not ask the question of what methodology should be used in education to think critically about cinema, but what the implications are of the nature of cinema for thought and for education. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10