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Greetings,


This feature ran in the NY Times today, and I thought it might be a
good discussion starter with regard to the relevance/importance/cache of
film schools, especially the "elite" schools. Hope this is of interest
to you all ...

Harper Cossar
Georgia State University

PS. Contrary to either the author's assertion, Walter Murch has never
been a cinematographer. :)


The New York Times
January 31, 2006 Tuesday
Late Edition - Final
SECTION: Section E; Column 1; The Arts/Cultural Desk; Pg. 1



HEADLINE: At U.S.C., A Practical Emphasis In Film



BYLINE: By SHARON WAXMAN


Twenty-seven-year-old Rain Br!
 eaw is
 determined to become a movie
director, so despite the prevailing wisdom, she is going to film school.

 ''The general opinion is if you want to be a filmmaker, you'd be
better off taking a production assistant job, and learn by doing,'' Ms.
Breaw said during a break from classes at the University of Southern
California's School of Cinema-Television, where she is in the final year of
the three-year master's program. ''But if you're not a child with
connections or have parents who can fund you, your only choice is film
school.''

 More than a generation after film schools here and in New York nudged
and nurtured a group of young artists including George Lucas, Martin
Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola toward cinematic greatness, the focus
of academic strongholds like U.S.C., whose film school is the oldest in
the country and one of the best, is squarely on the practical.

To read !
 the
 fulltext, click here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/31/movies/31film.html?_r=1&oref=slogin



Harper Cossar
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