Abstract
This paper reconsiders The Cinema Hypothesis and the propensity of Alain Bergala's cine-pedagogy to serve as an agent of interconnectivity within a slowly emergent global field of film education. Drawing upon some of the debates surrounding de-Westernizing film studies (Bâ and Higbee, 2012), this study explores notions of the global before situating a re-evaluation of The Cinema Hypothesis within that frame. Analysis focuses in particular on Bergala's: (1) particularized approach to cinema; (2) insistence upon a proximity between theory and practice; (3) asystematized approaches to analysis; (4) problematic relationship with canons; and (5) theory of disruption.
Highlights
This paper reconsiders The Cinema Hypothesis and the propensity of Alain Bergala’s cine-pedagogy to serve as an agent of interconnectivity within a slowly emergent global field of film education
Given the struggles faced by film educators worldwide to counter the peripherality of film in diverse curricula, it is perhaps unsurprising that a broad, global awareness of the wider discipline of film education and a cross-fertilization of different national and cultural approaches have been long in establishing themselves
Alain Bergala’s The Cinema Hypothesis has received its first English translation at a time when a growing number of film education programmes and research initiatives, those in Europe, are starting to articulate a notable international impulse. Projects such as the Cinémathèque française’s ongoing ‘Cinéma, cent ans de jeunesse’ programme, the BFI-led Screening Literacy survey and its subsequent Film Framework document, A Bao A Qu’s international Moving Cinema project, the Institut Français’s international European Cinema Education for Youth (CinEd), UNESCO’s World Cities of Film, and the Film Education Journal itself are all indicative of a growing tendency to reach beyond the boundaries of locality and nationality to establish dialogues with film education practices elsewhere in the world
Summary
Citation for published version: Chambers, J 2018, 'Towards an open cinema: Revisiting Alain Bergala’s The Cinema Hypothesis within a global field of film education', Film Education Journal, vol 1, no. (2018) ‘Towards an open cinema: Revisiting Alain Bergala’s The Cinema Hypothesis within a global field of film education’. Towards an open cinema: Revisiting Alain Bergala’s The Cinema Hypothesis within a global field of film education
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