Coda
The criticism we have read and performed in this unit turned into creativity on the film side and theory on the education side. I worry that I’ve included too much rationale in these pages, but rationale is a piece of beginning, not just a reason to begin. We have read horizontally across films, and I hope that 10 days is enough time to make an impression on students. I only arrived at that number 10 by breaking down a semester into nine units as the College Board does for AP curriculum. If we remember that we teachers are public intellectuals willing to connect pedagogy to the problems of public life, film can function as another way to define ourselves “authentically and spontaneously in relation to the world.”124
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