> > > While it's important to introduce students to "the > classics" in a film > > *history* class, in a intro to film class > different issues are often at > > center stage. For my money, it's much more > effective to use a James > > Cameron film as an example of a long take than > "Magnificent Ambersons", at > > least to a group of restless freshmen.... > I am currently taking an intro. course to film studies, and have been actually shown a fragment from "Magnificent Ambersons" (the opening sequence). If the opinion of a student counts, I didn't find it at all detached from me. If the film exemplifies well what the prof. wants to exemplify, welcome be the classics, and in this case I think it did (it was an example of how different narrating voices are put together in a sequence to provide the relevant information for the story that's going to be told). Silvia Fernandez. [log in to unmask] __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html