Film and Digital Media @ Messiah

Many naive people believe this. Of course, anyone with any knowledge of film can’t. But younger folks often have very limited experiences of films other than what they’ve seen in the last 6 or 7 years of their lives. If you’ve only ever read Harry Potter novels, then of course one of those novels will be your favorite. The same is true of films. If your knowledge of film is limited to the last ten years, then only newer films will make your top ten. Simple ignorance makes this true.

We live in an age of such “ignorances”. And knowledge of film is a small area to be concerned with. Much more concerning to us all should be knowledge of history intertwined with political economy and ideology. Film has a part in all this, increasingly so in the 20th century, but if I am only aware of the films released commercially in the last 10 years [and then only in their “stories” not their underlying ideologies and economics], then I am doomed to an ignorance of the true nature of film …