Comments on: What’s the Best Movie about the University? http://blog.emergingscholars.org/2009/09/whats-the-best-movie-about-the-university/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=whats-the-best-movie-about-the-university From InterVarsity's Emerging Scholars Network Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:42:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Hannah http://blog.emergingscholars.org/2009/09/whats-the-best-movie-about-the-university/comment-page-1/#comment-2601 Hannah Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:03:00 +0000 http://blog.emergingscholars.org/2009/09/whats-the-best-movie-about-the-university/#comment-2601 I'd definitely agree that Wit is dark, and I couldn't watch it often, but I think I will watch it again from time to time. But then, John Donne is one of my favorite poets, so I guess this means I have a high tolerance for gloom. :) I think it does present a grim view of the perils of the academy, but the main character's mentor seems to me like a great example of what the academic life can be at its best. She knows her field inside out but also knows that literature connects to life and that living well helps a person to understand poetry and vice versa. And I love her reading of "The Runaway Bunny," which is so simple but so invested with significance. I’d definitely agree that Wit is dark, and I couldn’t watch it often, but I think I will watch it again from time to time. But then, John Donne is one of my favorite poets, so I guess this means I have a high tolerance for gloom. :)

I think it does present a grim view of the perils of the academy, but the main character’s mentor seems to me like a great example of what the academic life can be at its best. She knows her field inside out but also knows that literature connects to life and that living well helps a person to understand poetry and vice versa. And I love her reading of “The Runaway Bunny,” which is so simple but so invested with significance.

]]> By: Amy http://blog.emergingscholars.org/2009/09/whats-the-best-movie-about-the-university/comment-page-1/#comment-2587 Amy Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:14:43 +0000 http://blog.emergingscholars.org/2009/09/whats-the-best-movie-about-the-university/#comment-2587 I loved "The Visitor" as well, and respect "The Wit" although it's too dark for me to ever watch again. Neither movie particularly puts life-as-a-professor in a good light do they? As a silly addition, how bout "The Absent-Minded Professor" or its remake "Flubber"? I loved “The Visitor” as well, and respect “The Wit” although it’s too dark for me to ever watch again. Neither movie particularly puts life-as-a-professor in a good light do they? As a silly addition, how bout “The Absent-Minded Professor” or its remake “Flubber”?

]]> By: Tom Grosh http://blog.emergingscholars.org/2009/09/whats-the-best-movie-about-the-university/comment-page-1/#comment-2482 Tom Grosh Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:06:41 +0000 http://blog.emergingscholars.org/2009/09/whats-the-best-movie-about-the-university/#comment-2482 As my FB friends know I recently watched and really enjoyed Buster Keaton's 'College' (1927). Check out the silent B&W film for free at http://www.archive.org/details/college As my FB friends know I recently watched and really enjoyed Buster Keaton’s ‘College’ (1927). Check out the silent B&W film for free at http://www.archive.org/details/college

]]> By: Thomas B. Grosh IV http://blog.emergingscholars.org/2009/09/whats-the-best-movie-about-the-university/comment-page-1/#comment-1625 Thomas B. Grosh IV Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:57:56 +0000 http://blog.emergingscholars.org/2009/09/whats-the-best-movie-about-the-university/#comment-1625 Loved watching "The Visitor" with grad students at a retreat on Hospitality. Is the film about higher education? Hmm. ... I have too many to pick a best, b/c they speak to so many different aspects of higher education, yes to "Good Will Hunting" and "A Beautiful Mind." How about "Animal House," "The Big Chill," "Dekalog 8: Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness"? Gotta run. I'll try to refine my list. Loved watching “The Visitor” with grad students at a retreat on Hospitality. Is the film about higher education? Hmm. … I have too many to pick a best, b/c they speak to so many different aspects of higher education, yes to “Good Will Hunting” and “A Beautiful Mind.” How about “Animal House,” “The Big Chill,” “Dekalog 8: Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness”? Gotta run. I’ll try to refine my list.

]]> By: Hannah http://blog.emergingscholars.org/2009/09/whats-the-best-movie-about-the-university/comment-page-1/#comment-1624 Hannah Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:41:49 +0000 http://blog.emergingscholars.org/2009/09/whats-the-best-movie-about-the-university/#comment-1624 I'd vote for Wit. It isn't exactly about the academy, but I think it has a lot to say about the perils of the academic life, and about what it can be at its best. Hannah I’d vote for Wit. It isn’t exactly about the academy, but I think it has a lot to say about the perils of the academic life, and about what it can be at its best.

Hannah

]]> By: Pat H http://blog.emergingscholars.org/2009/09/whats-the-best-movie-about-the-university/comment-page-1/#comment-1623 Pat H Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:19:10 +0000 http://blog.emergingscholars.org/2009/09/whats-the-best-movie-about-the-university/#comment-1623 Is "about the academy" different from "set in the academy"? Among my favorite movies are Good Will Hunting and A Beautiful Mind, yet neither is quite "about the academy", though the latter might be argued as being so. Is “about the academy” different from “set in the academy”? Among my favorite movies are Good Will Hunting and A Beautiful Mind, yet neither is quite “about the academy”, though the latter might be argued as being so.

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