Remarks on Teaching
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Oracular Fragments: Harold Innis, Plato and the Oral Tradition - Teaching and the Canadian Obligation
(1987)An enquiry into the nature, scope and limits of the conjectures of Harold Innis with respect to the oral tradition and its possible import for the art of teaching – within Canada in particular. -
A Note on the Proper Study of Film: A Response to C. B. Hunt
(1980)A cautionary response, published within the Newsletter of the American Film Institute in November-December 1980, to suggestions to the contrary about the teaching of film and the administration of those doing it made within ... -
How to Measure an Ideology
(1984)A primer on the rudiments of the tough task of theorizing for film 'theorists' unable to distinguish theories from ideologies. -
Filmmaking, Teaching and the Colonial Experience: An Immigrant's Account from "English" Canada of a Story of American Success
(1992)A caustic commentary on the nature, scope and limits of filmmaking and the teaching of it within Canada provoked by a supposedly informed review of the former that appeared within the Globe & Mail of Toronto ("Canada's ... -
LE JEU EST FINI; LA GUERRE COMMENCE (or Playin' by the Rules Ain't Hardly No Fun Anymore)
(1978)An address on the nature, scope and consequences of the coming industrialisation of higher education presented to the Invitational Conference and Workshop on Film/Video as an Artistic, Professional, and Academic Discipline, ... -
McLuhan's Method: the Mad Hatter at Tea with Austin and Wittgenstein
(1989)What was McLuhan doing? How was he doing it? Was it important? Within this essay I try to answer those questions by linking what he said and did, and how he did it, with the ways and means of the seemingly dissimilar ... -
Bypassing Elder - Sitney on Elder on Brakhage
(2000)P. Adams Sitney, in his otherwise estimable review of Bruce Elder's The Films of Stan Brakhage in the American Tradition of Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, and Charles Olson, disregards the author's goal of demonstrating how ... -
From Plato to Socrates: Wittgenstein's Journey on Collingwood's Map
(2003)How can I learn and help others to learn to mean more precisely by saying, doing and making things? By attending to how Ludwig Wittgenstein and Robin Collingwood answered that question during the first half of the twentieth ...