on the still vexed question of using video for films kevin howley writes:
 
 
> There is a certain element of pragmatism in any teaching endeavor
> (trade-offs re: films to show, facilities to use, texts books etc).  I
> have used video tapes in a number of courses for very pragmatic reasons
> but not without student and self-criticism.
>
he, like many other respondents, chooses to talk about the use of video in
purely pragmatic [i.e. administrative] terms, while still feeling guilty
about it (note the admission of "self-criticism" . . . but why be
self-critical? . . . i still want to know what, in principle, is lost when we
watch a good laser disc issue of a film on a large screen in a darkened room
. . . some have suggested that the actual difference in the kind of light and
light emission used makes a supernal difference . . . is this true? . . . if
not what . . . and why the hell be guilty?
 
mike frank  [[log in to unmask]]
 
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