Educational viewing meets educational conversation : phenomenology, classrooms, and film reception
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Chad E. Harris (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
- Advisor
- Glenn Hudak
Abstract: “Educational Viewing Meets Educational Conversation: Phenomenology, Classrooms, and Film Reception” is a philosophical dissertation by way of phenomenology. It is based in cultural foundations of education, which has us confront our basic assumptions about education generally and schooling specifically—that is, informal education and institutionalized education. This work embraces cultural foundations’ interdisciplinarity, integrating and expanding film reception studies, film phenomenology, podcast studies, aesthetics, and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies. Phenomenology “seeks to uncover the taken-for-granted presuppositions, habits, and norms that structure everyday experience” (Weiss et al., 2020b, back cover); it is “concerned with how the world gives itself to appearances, and the structures of consciousness through which we apprehend that givenness” (Salamon, 2018a, p. 15). Inspiring this work are the commonalities between the ubiquity of schooling as an institution and that of film as a popular, artistic medium. Ubiquity leads to repeated actions that become habitual. Thus, both schooling and filmgoing are taken for granted, and assumption and expectation stifle conversations about film. This study offers thought and practice toward conversations not mired in debate or “opinion.” It asks: (a) What would it mean for a filmgoer to have responsibilities beyond mere reception? (b) What would it mean to have a phenomenological attitude as a filmgoer? and (c) What could it mean for education generally and schooling specifically to take a phenomenological approach in making pedagogical investments in more nuanced ways of receiving film? In posing these questions, this work recasts “educational” from merely facilitating learning to directly necessitating an openness to grapple with what might arise. Facing up to this challenge means embracing paradox and tension, engaging in conversations other than those in which one directly participates, and acknowledging that, while film might be the most visible and aural example of a “received” medium, reception itself is ubiquitous.
Educational viewing meets educational conversation : phenomenology, classrooms, and film reception
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Dissertation
- Language: English
- Date: 2022
- Keywords
- Conversation, Critical phenomenology, Film philosophy, Podcast studies, Reception theory, Women's gender sexuality studies
- Subjects
- Motion pictures $x Philosophy
- Reader-response criticism
- Phenomenology